When your wife is a knitter, and insists on taking pictures of finished knitting projects… kill me now.
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Marriage →
The more you can hear →
The quieter you become,
~ unknown
the more you can hear.
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Simple Food: Thoughts on Practicality →
We live in a society where most of the food is at a level of reward/palatability that our species has never encountered before. We’re surrounded by it, and everywhere we turn, someone is jockeying for our attention, trying to get us to purchase their food. We’re used to it– and for the most part, we like it. This professionally engineered food drives our behavior in a way that is only loosely under our conscious control, with a small percentage of the population succumbing to frank addiction. So I can understand why some people are resistant to change.
~ Stephan Guyenet from, Simple Food
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An antidote to the loneliness of the divided mind →
But you will cease to feel isolated when you recognize, for example, that you do not have a sensation of the sky: you are that sensation. For all purposes of feeling, your sensation of the sky is the sky, and there is no “you” apart from what you sense, feel, and know.
~ Alan Watts from, Alan Watts on Our Search for Meaning and the Antidote to Our Existential Loneliness
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This is for Me, Too →
My biggest struggle has been trying to live up to my own words and beliefs. I can’t just write this stuff and not do it. I can’t be that kind of hypocrite. I can’t tell people to go out and push themselves if I’m not willing to do it myself.
~ Jack Donovan from, «https://www.jack-donovan.com/axis/2016/10/this-is-for-me-too/»
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Success makes noise →
Work hard in silence.
~ unknown
Let success make the noise.
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Comfort →
Dinah Craik, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinah_Craik
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A teaching moment on sexual assault →
This is worse than just “objectification” of women, because we would never tolerate similar thinking about actual objects: If your drive for acquisition overcomes your impulse control, you’re a thief, period. The strength of your greed does you no credit; you’re not complimenting the wealth of the people you steal from; it’s not their fault for having such nice stuff or displaying it so attractively; and we don’t give in to the inevitability of theft whenever valuable objects are visible to people who might desire them. When it comes to object-lust, self-control is the price of staying in civilization; if you can’t muster it, we’ll lock you away”
~ Doug Muder from, A Teaching Moment on Sexual Assault
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True friends →
True friends stab you in the front.
~ Oscar Wilde
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Ultralight, by Leo Babauta →
The freedom that resulted was so incredible. We felt liberated. We could travel faster, farther, happier. Sure, we gave up a handful of comforts, but in return we got the comfort of being unburdened.
Recently, Leo Babauta put together a spectacular book on travel called, Ultralight. I’ve only recently begun reading it, but it covers a great deal of what I wanted to say. And — as with so many things Leo writes — it’s written better than I could hope to do myself. So for now, start with this book (it’s a very affordable Ebook). I expect some of what I add to this series will be commentary and thoughts on what Leo has written, and some will be from the notes I’ve already compiled on my own.
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