Almost everything that is meaningful, beautiful, life-affirming, empowering, transformational, true—it can’t be reached by shortcuts. But what we can do is make the longcuts walkable, put out footbridges and stairs, and a table where the ocean comes into view.
On Shortcuts and Longcuts
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
—Lu Xun
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jed McKenna • Spiritual Warfare (The Enlightenment Trilogy Book 3)
"The ‘safe path’ is not actually safe. In fact it’s dangerous. It’s dangerous to your dreams. Safety murders your ambition. Murders your sense of adventure. Safety is a serial killer. But it operates in a slow, boring fashion. Like a pillow suffocating an old-man on a hospital bed."
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