Frank Brown

Absolute Honesty:

“No lying, no cheating, no stealing; in a word, in all your affairs, simply and absolutely no falsehood.”

Absolute Purity:

“Purity of mind, purity of body, purity of the emotions, purity of heart, sexual purity.”

Absolute Unselfishness:

“Seeking what is right and true ahead of what I want in every situation.”

Absolute Love:

“Loving ... See more

Regarding anxiety as “just part of the script” helps us see it not as a screaming alarm system we have to heed, but as a phenomenon that simply plays out in the theater of our mind. All these thoughts—”I don’t want to go,” “I should stay home because I value self-care”--are just passing through.

“Ooh, here’s the part where I think I should stay home... See more

I finished a notebook (Field Notes United States of Letterpress edition) and typed up anything worth remembering.

““The day is to be experienced, not understood!””

— The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have by Mark Nepo

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No matter the era, conservatism is a story about how 50-year-old white guys thought everything was better back when they were 13, before the bad people came along and made it so things couldn’t stay the same forever. (This fetishized past used to be the 1940s or ‘50s. By updated math, civilization’s current peak was 1987.)

But when you believe in this perfect world — not in God, necessarily, but in the crushing beauty of every tiny leaf, every little shimmer of sunshine on water, every faint breeze drifting through the air — you connect with your capacity for love, with your uncanny ability to form new connections and discover new ideas, with your unbelievable streng... See more

Until I gave up my made-up construct for the life I thought I was supposed to be living, I couldn’t begin to live the life that was actually meant for me. Until I let go of everything not meant for me, what was meant for me couldn’t find me.