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“It’s only by keeping a distance from the world that I can begin to see its proportions and begin to try to sift the essential from the fleeting. I feel that so many of us now have the sensation of standing about two inches away from this very crowded, noisy, constantly shifting big screen, and that screen is our lives. It’s only by stepping back t... See more
They just didn’t see who I was, and it hurt me deeply. But one day I was sitting on a beach and it suddenly came to me: my soul had needed that struggle. It had needed to fight off my parents’ idea of who I should be. It had needed to do this to become strong.
Alan Lew • This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation
There is a common misperception of what makes life meaningful. It is the idea that we have a special purpose in life – and that once we find it, all our confusion ends.
Unverified Revelations • Instead of your Life's Purpose
They think they know who their audience is. They think they know what book they should write. They think they know which part of their story is going to resonate with the most people. They think they know “who they are”—and the brutal truth is, they don’t.