At some point, when you can do it, you have to leave home. You can always come back, but you have to leave at least once.

Your brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings. You need to make it uncomfortable. You need to spend some time in another land, among people that do things differently than you. Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.

“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”

—Chuck Klosterman

"A society must seek to ensure that the basic necessities of life are accessible to all if it is to be a society in which human dignity, freedom, and equality are foundational."

"Take an interest in your pain and your fear. Move closer, lean in, get curious; even for a moment, experience the feelings without labels, beyond being good or bad. Welcome them. Invite them. Do anything that helps melt the resistance."- Pema Chödrön

“If a person’s behavior doesn’t make sense to you,” they write, “it is because you are missing a part of their context. It’s that simple.”

how do you take a walk with someone on the internet?