Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind
Do nothing for prestige or status or money or approval alone
Be generous
Build pockets of stillness into your life
Creativity flows when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click into new combinations
When people tell you who they are, believe them. When people tell you who you are, don't believe them
6.Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity
[[quotes]] "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives" - Annie Dillard
[[quotes]] "Expect anything worthwhile to take a long time" - Debbie Millman
Seek out what magnifies your spirit
Don't be afraid to be an idealist
Don't just resist cynicism - fight it actively
Unlike the Rilkean life-expanding doubt, it is a contracting force
Unlike critical thinking, that pillar of reason and necessary counterpart to hope, it is inherently uncreative, unconstructive, and spiritually corrosive
Question your maps and models of the universe, both inner and outer, and continually test them against the raw in put of reality
There are infinitely many kinds of beautiful lives
In any bond of depth and significance, forgive, forgive, forgive. And then forgive again
The richest relationships are lifeboats, but they are also submarines that descend to the darkest and most disquieting places, to the unfathomed trenches of the soul where our deepest shames and foibles and vulnerabilities live, where we are less than we would like to be
Retrospective::
One week ago: [[April 5th, 2021]]
One month ago: [[March 12th, 2021]]
One quarter ago: [[January 12th, 2021]]
One year ago: [[April 12th, 2020]]
Daily Stoic::
There are no free lunches, if there seems to be a gift that is too good to be true - it might just be.