— Maria Popova
Tag: Awareness
I am sometimes taken aback by how people can have a miserable day or get angry because they feel cheated by a bad meal, cold coffee, a social rebuff or a rude reception…
…We are quick to forget that just being alive is an extraordinary piece of good luck, a remote event, a chance occurrence of monstrous proportions. Imagine a speck of dust next to a planet a billion times the size of the earth. The speck of dust represents the odds in favour of your being born;
To pay close attention to and mostly accept your life, inside and out and around your body, is to be halfway home…
And there is always nature, her royal self, who offers herself both as a light show and as bread to be eaten, We hang with her as much as possible, because nature really knows how to do it when she is not being mercurial and destroying entire regions. We do get a taste of the
On Truth as Paradox
All truth is paradox. Everything true in the world has innate contradictions… … and this turns out to be a reason for hope. If you arrive at a place in life that is miserable, it will change, and something else about it will also be true. So paradox is an invitation to go deeper into
What you spend your time worrying about likely doesn’t matter. And what you spend your time NOT worrying about matters a lot.
— Meb Faber
I think it’s easy to assume we know ourselves, but once you peel back the layers it’s amazing how much there is to still discover
— Kevin Love (link)