Insightful
Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield titled one of his books, “After the Ecstasy, the Laundry.” Achieving enlightenment, he argues, does not preclude one from the daily, mundane tasks of life.
The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.
Pema Chodron • When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (Shambhala Classics)
“I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.”
-Charles Bukowski
"Move toward the next thing, not away from the last thing.
Same direction. Completely different energy."
Same direction. Completely different energy."
3-2-1: On the shortness of life, what mastery requires, and how to overlap the things you love
People pay to see others believe in themselves.
“I’M REALLY SCARED WHEN I KILL IN MY DREAMS” (FROM A LYRIC BY GLENN BRANCA)
Start by starting.
“I think I have given up on having one character arc or being able to make sense of it all as a unity. I'm trying to get lost in whatever work presents itself on a given day, and if it doesn't add up to anything coherent, that's fine.”
-Sasha Chapin