focus your time and energy on what you want to see more of

I used to think this from 2002-2015 and it fucked me up 😅. Maybe it works for some people, but my exp taught me I that can’t win a war with myself. What finally worked for me was to realize I had to negotiate a peace with the “saboteur”, who really just wants us to be safe

Gabor Maté dedicated his life to curing childhood trauma. He once said: "The attempt to escape from pain is what creates more pain." As a father and social worker with 15+ years guiding transformation… Here are his 5 lessons to rewire your brain and save yourself: 🧵

You have to go all in. No half-measures, no detached irony—full sincerity, full commitment. You have to give it everything you’ve got. Irony poisoning is done. We’re in the era of maximum earnestness. Be the best version of yourself, no hesitation, no second-guessing.

Sonder - An Ode To Poetry Class

trying is cool. ambition is cool. failing is cool. persistence is cool. learning is cool. success is cool. obsession is cool. mastery is cool. discipline is cool. greatness is cool.

being honest about your ambition and quest for greatness > false humility and self deprecation in a hope to be relatable and rooted for

dostoyevsky said hell isn't fire and chains but simply being unable to love. we search for God in cathedrals when he hides in the eyes of strangers who need us. in the beggar we rush past. in the enemy we refuse to forgive. in the parts of ourselves we keep locked in darkness. we

How strange to find that your mistakes have been adding up to exactly who you needed to become.

The soul is oriented towards obsession: it wants to be possessed by something greater, consummated in a quest, absorbed into a vortex of devotion, and eaten by the feeling of passion. The soul wants to fall in love hard. “All addictions are a low level search for God.” —Carl Jung

watch children. they don't separate mind from body. pure animal joy. then school happens. we teach them to sit still. good children don't run. don't yell. don't feel too much. years later they'll pay therapists to help them reconnect with bodies they abandoned. they'll try drugs

both the ocean floor and the human heart make liars of anyone who claims to have charted their depths