Quotes
This is a collection of quotes from various places that I find meaningful and hope you will get value from as well.
Currently reading: The Humans by Matt Haig 📚
“Love was a way to live forever in a single moment, and it was also a way to yourself as you had never actually seen yourself, and made you realize – having done so– that this view was a more meaningful one than any of your previous self-perceptions and self-deceptions.”
Seeking Love Through Solidarity
Began the day this morning reading this beautiful word about love and solidarity:
If you choose solidarity, instead of pulling away from those you once suspected, avoided, vilified, or rejected, you see them as neighbors. You smile. You talk. You try to collaborate for the common good in whatever ways you can. When you disagree, as you must, you do so boldly but also graciously, not burning bridges, not breaking solidarity. They may be your opponents for the moment, but you don’t write them off as enemies. Brian McLaren
Currently reading: Ordinary Mysticism by Mirabai Starr 📚
You don’t have to enter a monastery to be a mystic. You don’t have to renounce chocolate or forsake pop culture. It is not necessary to take formal vows and beat yourself up when you inevitably fail to uphold them…To be a mystic in our times is not about renunciation; it is about intention. Living as a mystic means orienting the whole of yourself toward the sacred. It’s a matter of purposely looking through the lens of love.
It seems that in our pursuit of happiness, we’re taking focus off of what could be meaningful. But it’s in the pursuit of what is meaningful that happiness seems most likely to appear. As Viktor Frankl put it, “Happiness cannot be pursued, it can only ensue.”
Ryder Carroll
Currently reading: Anxious People: A Novel by Fredrik Backman 📚
They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.
Currently reading: Discipline Is Destiny by Ryan Holiday 📚
Currently reading: Discipline Is Destiny by Ryan Holiday 📚
