It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing.
Indeed, it is as essential to transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells.
Anxieties and doubts can be healthy and creative, not only for the person, but for the society, because they permit new and original approaches to reality.
Joanna Macy
Marcus Aurelius reminding us that external events or people cannot corrupt our inner self — only our own choices and thoughts can.
It is in your own power to maintain the beauty of your soul, or to be a decent human being.
If once you realize this, you will never lose it again.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book 5, section 16
When stumped by a life choice, choose “enlargement” over happiness.
I’m indebted to the Jungian therapist James Hollis for the insight that major personal decisions should be made not by asking, “Will this make me happy?”, but “Will this choice enlarge me or diminish me?”
Oliver Burkeman
Give up defining yourself – to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life.
And don’t be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s their problem.
Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence.
You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose
I find hope in the darkest of days
and focus in the brightest.
I do not judge the universe.
The Dalai Lama
To keep on filling
is not as good as stopping.
Oversharpen a blade,
and the edge will soon lose its keenness.
Do your work, then step back.
The only path to lasting calm.
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, 9
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