Wintering is the courage to stare down the worst parts of our experience and to commit to healing them the best we can. Wintering is a moment of intuition, our true needs felt keenly as a knife.
-- Katherine May (Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times)
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Selective focus allows us to decide which thoughts to cultivate and follow, and which thoughts to dispel, www.compassmethods.com. https://youtube.com/@compassionscompass-sb7jo?si=l1lZgW7RLZPpl1ZW #mentalhealth #focus #love #compassion #wisdom
Any sufficiently advanced render is indistinguishable from reality.
-- Anonymous (The Archillect)
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
-- Vince Lombardi
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It is not up to you to complete the work, but neither are you free to desist from it.
-- Talmud
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
-- Carl Sagan
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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of this meeting.
-- Bryan Donaldson
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Hope is not a feeling, it is a decision.
-- Xeni Jardin (@xeni)
“𝚆𝚎 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚗 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚑𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚠𝚎 𝚍𝚘 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚗 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚑𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢.”
― 𝘎𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘨 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘮 𝘍𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘏𝘦𝘨𝘦𝘭
In a quiet and inquiring mind, the truth reveals itself, www.compassmethods.com. https://youtube.com/@compassionscompass-sb7jo?si=_62z1ut0SWiT8-j- #mentalhealth #truth #love #compassion #wisdom
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
-- Samuel Smiles
I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.
-- Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)
Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.
-- Tom Robbins
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Pay no attention to appearing. Being is alone important.
-- Andre Gide
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Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
-- William Shakespeare (King Lear)
The elegance, we can fairly say the beauty, of any particular scientific generalization is measured by its simplicity relative to the number of phenomena it can explain.
-- Edward O. Wilson
“𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚠𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚜 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚏𝚘𝚘𝚕𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚜𝚞𝚛𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚊 𝚕𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚎 𝚊𝚞𝚍𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎.”
― 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘶𝘳 𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘩𝘢𝘶𝘦𝘳
The present moment is where life happens. Compassionate insight makes it meaningful, www.compassmethods.com. https://youtube.com/@compassionscompass-sb7jo?si=iQqXngXAjC5FqP_h #mentalhealth #love #peace #compassion #wisdom
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
-- H. L. Mencken
