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“A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”
― Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”
― Bette Midler

“Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.”

― Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

Richard Siken

"People are telling you who they are. They may say things jokingly, or seemingly casually, but they are always showing you something true about themselves."

-- my therapist

True Zen Purpose
True Zen Purpose

Perhaps the greatest gift an animal has to offer is a permanent reminder of who we really are.
Nick Trout

“A mycelial network is a map of a fungus’s recent history and is a helpful reminder that all life-forms are in fact processes not things. The “you” of five years ago was made from different stuff than the “you” of today. Nature is an event that never stops. As William Bateson, who coined the word genetics, observed, “We commonly think of animals and plants as matter, but they are really systems through which matter is continually passing.”

― Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

“It doesn’t matter how sensitive you are or how damn smart and educated you are, if you’re not both at the same time, if your heart and your brain aren’t connected, aren’t working together harmoniously, well, you’re just hopping through life on one leg. You may think you’re walking, you may think you’re running a damn marathon, but you’re only on a hop trip. The connections gotta be maintained.” — Tom Robbins

“We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.” ― John Dewey

The prettier the garden, the dirtier the hands of the gardener.

B. E. Barnes, Put in work. Tend yoursel…
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