Reminders for myself

“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightening to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.”

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Chuck Close

A quote from Chuck Close

As the great mystic Saint John of the Cross said, “In order to come to the knowledge you have not, you must go by a way in which you know not.” I love this quote. It’s entirely paradoxical.

Adyashanti • Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering

“Am I being dragged or driven?”

you need to start before you’re ready because you become ready by starting. you figure out what works by seeing what doesn’t work. there is very little that you can *think* yourself into a reality-approved answer to. you need to live out your questions by experimenting with them.

Isabel

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When we feel judged, we hide our love away, we put up our walls, we resist. If your theory of change depends in any way on the idea that telling someone what is wrong with them will lead to them changing what is wrong with them, you will be sorely ineffective.

Simeon Zahl • How Do People Actually Change? - Mockingbird

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Dalai Lama

Buddha

The ego loves to take sides; it gives us a false sense of solidity, importance, and intelligence. Contemplation is any way we can find to help us penetrate illusion and touch reality—and reality will always be bigger than us. It will always leave us a bit uncomfortable, a bit off center stage. If we’re still on center stage, it isn’t Reality.

The Purpose of Contemplation

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather taking action despite the fear.

Jason Liu • Advice to Young People, the Lies I Tell Myself