- If it’s worth doing, then it’s worth doing slowly. There is nothing worse you can do for something you care about than to rush it. (See: Wu Wei)
- The challenge of our generation is to understand, empathize, and expand our locus of compassion for others. We can no longer afford to be insular.
- We do not need a cure for death, disease or illness. We need to be cured of the fear, resistance and avoidance to the things which are just as vital to human flourishing.
- There are people – men, usually – alienated and separated from their communities, lacking deep social connections, who, in the effort to solve their loneliness, look to superficial things like breakthrough technologies, high-growth business, and other material pursuits. As they put more of themselves into these endeavors, they estrange themselves further. It becomes harder for them to connect with others beyond transactional relationships. That’s how truly cruel people are made.
- In what ways are you still the same child you were before? In what ways have you lost the essence of your childhood? Are there traits you would like to let go of, or to rediscover once more?
- Whatever you do, understand that it could all be for naught, that it might not make a difference, that it might be perverted and twisted by charlatans – and commit to it with all your heart anyway.
- As much as the productivity and self-help industry is premised on quantified progress, there is no use in setting deadlines or time limits for the most important tasks of life. Follow your own rhythm. Patience is all you can ask for.
- What got you here won’t get you to where you want to go. Often, moving forward has meant that I had to break some codes and tenets I once cleaved to. I understand now that what I was really doing was simply staying true to higher laws.
- What you do not have, you cannot lose. And none of us truly “own” anything. Accept the gifts that fortune accords you with gratitude, so that when the time comes, you can let them go without restraint.
One liners – Part 2
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