The Good Life
Rick Rubin on success
Don’t just resist cynicism — fight it actively. Fight it in yourself, for this ungainly beast lies dormant in each of us, and counter it in those you love and engage with, by modeling its opposite. Cynicism often masquerades as nobler faculties and dispositions, but is categorically inferior. Unlike that great Rilkean life-expanding doubt, it is a ... See more
Maria Popova • 18 Life-Learnings From 18 Years of the Marginalian
Rituals are not about doing something exceptional together. They are about the everyday. How can we do the most mundane of things together to help make each other’s lives more livable?
Ayesha Khan, Ph.D. • Rituals (with your homies) make life worth living
“In the west today most people are going to have two or three marriages, two or three committed relationships in their adult life. It’s just that some of us are going to do it with the same person.”
– Esther Perel
There are a lot of forces that will lead you astray when you're trying to figure out what to work on. Pretentiousness, fashion, fear, money, politics, other people's wishes, eminent frauds. But if you stick to what you find genuinely interesting, you'll be proof against all of them. If you're interested, you're not astray.
Hate requires vast amounts of energy to maintain. It is something that needs to be fed by ongoing narratives of victimhood and identity. Love, on the other hand, requires no energy at all, because it is the very energy of reality itself. Love requires nothing. Hate requires continual feeding and fueling.
Martin W. Ball • Entheogenic Liberation: Unraveling the Enigma of Nonduality with 5-MeO-DMT Energetic Therapy (The Entheogenic Evolution Book 8)
Develop a habit of working on your own projects. Don't let "work" mean something other people tell you to do. If you do manage to do great work one day, it will probably be on a project of your own. It may be within some bigger project, but you'll be driving your part of it.
How to Do Great Work
Remember that nothing is too small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.
Therese of Lisieux
