one common trait I find in high achieving individuals is urgency. it looks almost like impatience until you understand it is closer to reverence, a deep refusal to waste the one thing they can’t buy more of. the alarm goes and they rise. the message is answered while it is still warm. the small task is done before it can find a shelf to hide on. they commit and move in a single motion. an idea sparks and they chase it that day, before the world talks them out of it. they run at their own lives like something is at stake, because they have decided something is.
turns out going monk mode for six weeks and doing love activities and beauty rituals and getting rid of tons of stuff and sobering up and eating whole foods and being surrounded by people you adore does fix your life
Connecting young people to digital networks serves no purpose if they remain disconnected from themselves, others, and their own interiority. We must help young people rediscover silence, reflection, the ability to ask questions, the depth of relationships, and openness to transcendence. To listen to the soul, we must lend an ear, because the soul's voice is not a shout, but a whisper.
He deeply gets “for dust you are and to dust you will return”. Insane humility in rejecting the fantasy of self-preservation. The rebirth you’re looking for is in the death you’re avoiding. If you can’t risk losing it all to destruction you don’t have enough faith in creation