self renewal
explorations in how individuals and institutions can adapt, evolve, and renew their sense of vitality when they become stagnant.
self renewal
Once you decide to change your life, actually changing is easy.
Unfortunately, deciding to change is incredibly difficult.
Unfortunately, deciding to change is incredibly difficult.
Aaron Francis • Tweet
I believe that our creativity grows like sidewalk weeds out of the cracks between our pathologies—not from the pathologies themselves. But so many people think it’s the other way around. For this reason, you will often meet artists who deliberately cling to their suffering, their addictions, their fears, their demons. They worry that if they ever l
... See moreElizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
The goal isn’t money; the goal is to live a thrilling adventure that you’re going to enjoy anyway, and potentially get rich accidentally during the process.
Orange Book • Tweet
We have to fall in love with our practice. We have to find a way that what we are doing when we practice is exactly what we want to be doing, and then practice will begin to be what we are doing all of the time, whether we are doing it formally or going through our daily lives.
If practice is a chore, or it is boring, or if you’d rather be doing so... See more
If practice is a chore, or it is boring, or if you’d rather be doing so... See more
corey ichigen hess • You Have to Love Your Practice
Paradoxically, the people who trust themselves the most are usually the people who have betrayed themselves the most profoundly, but then made the decision to walk themselves home—inch by inch—to their authentic selves.
Katherine Morgan Schafler • The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control
If we don’t know how to mourn and rebuild, we are incentivized to keep the storms of our lives raging indefinitely.
Staying locked in an eternal battle against the world is a good way to distract ourselves from the incredible vulnerability of existing within it.
Staying locked in an eternal battle against the world is a good way to distract ourselves from the incredible vulnerability of existing within it.
Heidi Priebe • Tweet
"The metacrisis" is attractive because it suggests you can save the world by thinking about it extremely abstractly.
David Chapman • Tweet
Allowing and encouraging a quality of play and experimentation in practice is vital, and vitalizing. I can’t emphasize this enough. Usually that’s how we learn best as human beings, and it keeps things from getting rigid and feeling heavy.
Rob Burbea • Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising
“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.” -Jean-Paul Sartre