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Aren’t we all born to run?
“How do you flip the internal switch that changes us all back into the Natural Born Runners we once were? […] running was mankind’s first fine art, our original act of inspired creation. Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees, we were perfecting the art of combining our…
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The message
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” Carl Sagan, Contact The photo above is of the earth (see the tiny pale blue dot; that’s it) as seen from Voyager 1.
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Live 15 lives in another world
What if I told you there is a book that you won’t be able to put down, one that’s cleverly written and filled with compelling stories and through which you will learn (a lot) about how many people in the world experience life? Look no further than How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia…
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Bruce Lee: punk and monk
“The joke in China is kung fu is a way to trick thirteen-year-old boys into meditating. Bruce had started his martial arts path as a punk. From this instant forward, he would speak and think more and more like a Taoist monk. This internal dichotomy and conflict between his punkish personality and monkish insights would…
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No great merit in it if it’s mechanical
The beauty of an action comes not from its having become a habit but from its sensitivity, consciousness, clarity of perception, and accuracy of response.”
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Don’t use the word hate
Murakami said it best: “Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. In most cases, not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from.”
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The irrational other
Jerry Colonna’s book Reboot explores the emotional baggage we all carry and how we can each use a practice of self-inquiry to sort through it all. While it certainly contains a wealth of helpful approaches and ideas, one concept stuck out in particular for me: the concept of the Irrational Other.
Writing and drawings by Nick.
