Stories, quotes, experiments, practices, bits and bobs that consistently give me sudden glimpses into the nature of existence. A list of “personal koans”. A collection of psychoactive bits of text. Maybe they’ll hit you too.
- “My whole life, regardless of all that may happen to me, every minute of it, is not only not meaningless, as it was before, but has the unquestionable meaning of the good which it is in my power to put into it!”—Tolstoy in Anna Karenina
- “The world is all made up, and that’s a great thing. Don’t forget, you get to make it up too.“—Garry Tan
- “Everywhere I see people working forwards from what they know how to get to find what they want, rather than figuring out what they want then finding out how to get it”—Nick Cammarata
- “No amount of exageration will do justice to what actually happened”—David Whyte on The Tim Ferriss Podcast
- “Every first draft is perfect because all the first draft has to do is exist.”—Jane Smiley
- Combine this with the meditative practice of beginning again and drop into flow as every moment, every action, and every thought is no longer judged and forcefully dissected, but is instead taken as an opportunity to learn, to try something new, to let go of old baggage.
- Nils Frahm Live at the Philharmonie de Paris. Link.