Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
~ Mark Twain
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Pause and reflect →
The way to finding powerful human connection →
Human connection is not so common in our age of connectivity. We see lots of people but find our little cucoons to hide in. We don’t realize we’re craving a deeper connection with others until we find it.
It’s hard to connect, because cultural norms get in the way — we’re supposed to talk about the weather and sports and the news, but not our deepest struggles. We’re supposed to say cool or witty things, but not share our greatest hopes for our lives or the person we want to become.
~ Leo Babauta from, The Way to Finding Powerful Human Connection
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Why travel? Well, I’m glad you asked…
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The more you can hear →
The quieter you become,
~ unknown
the more you can hear.
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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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True friends →
True friends stab you in the front.
~ Oscar Wilde
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Maturity →
I don’t know the actual meaning of maturity. But for me, maturity is when a person hurts you and you try to understand their situation rather than hurting them back.
~ unknown
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Exactly! →
Fortune cookie mic-drop.
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Meditations on the wisdom of action →
To begin reorienting to a life of action requires something which at first appears to be non-action: meditations. We have to contemplate what action is and understand how it plays out in our lives. … At the same time, we can appear to be doing all sorts of things externally without actually taking a meaningful action. As Thoreau asked, “It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?”
~ Brett McKay from, Meditations on the Wisdom of Action | The Art of Manliness The Art of Manliness
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Peace →
Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in a the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.
~ unknown
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This too shall pass →
This really gets to the crux of why, when we’re in the midst of a funk, we feel like it will last forever, and yet it inevitably passes. When we imagine the future, we think we will always feel the way we do at that moment, but we do not imagine all the life events that will keep us from sitting in our room and brooding 24/7. The vast majority of minds cannot ruminate on the same thing indefinitely. Life goes on and takes us along with it.
~ Brett McKay from, This Too Shall Pass | The Art of Manliness
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“This too shall pass,” is one of the most useful bits of wisdom to which I cling. I sometimes say…
If things are going badly, be patient, they will change.
If things are going well, be patient, they will change.
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