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Love all people, including those who do wrong. They may be acting unintentionally, out of ignorance. Even if they are acting intentionally, they can’t harm you—that is, they can’t make you a worse person than before. Only you can harm yourself, by fanning the flames of hatred and resentment.
Marcus Aurelius, “The Meditations” (trans. Sam Torode)
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Who am I when nobody pays attention, says thanks, or recognizes my work? The more insecure, doubtful, and lonely we are, the greater our need for popularity and praise. …
Indeed, the search for spectacular glitter is an expression of doubt in God’s complete and unconditional acceptance of us. It is indeed putting God to the test. It is saying: “I am not sure that you really care, that you really love me, that you really consider me worthwhile. I will give you a chance to show it by soothing my inner fears with human praise and by alleviating my sense of worthlessness by human applause.
Henri J.H. Nouwen, “The Selfless Way of Christ: Downward Mobility and the Spiritual Life”
Choosing to pursue every creative interest is equivalent to abandoning them all. …
Instead, choose one or two creative practices to pursue first and hold off on the dozen remaining ideas for the time being. Once you’ve made some progress along your path, pursuing additional areas of interest might be the perfect way to take a refreshing break from your primary discipline. Ultimately, committing to one area of focus for some period of time will help you later on. …
What matters is that you start. All you’re deciding to do is to try. Do whatever you can with what you have. It will never feel like the right time. You will never be “ready.” Avoid preparing too much. Start before you are ready. Start with fear. Start with uncertainty. This is one of the biggest secrets of the most creative, happy, successful people: Just start.
Chase Jarvis, “Creative Calling: Establish a Daily Practice, Infuse Your World with Meaning, and Succeed in Work + Life”
The pandemic has disabused us of the illusion of time as a limitless resource and of the false promise that the sacrifices we make for our careers are always worth it.
Before the pandemic, we knew we were going to die, but we did not believe it. Maybe we believed it, but considered it a problem to be dealt with later. In the meantime, exercise and a reasonable diet was the tithes we paid to our fears. We believed we had time. …
The pandemic has reminded us that life is more than what we do. It is about whom we spend our lives with. We cannot hug a career or laugh with a promotion. We are made for friendship, love and community.
Esau McCauley, “We Weren’t Happy Before the Pandemic, Either” (The New York Times [subscription])
I had a sense that I was contributing and doing good work. I ended up getting just frustrated with the sameness of it. It wasn’t a bull’s-eye in terms of what I wanted to do in an entertainment. I set out to be a character actor. And I was still young enough to be dissatisfied. Dissatisfaction is a luxury that only the young can afford.
Andy Richter (emphasis mine)
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... let your definition of gratitude extend beyond "I am glad this happened" to: This is what makes me, me. This is what makes my life, mine. And being here, being me, is something I can be grateful for.
Liz Lamoreaux
... merely knowing that the news focuses disproportionately on negative and scary stories doesn’t mean you’ll adjust your emotions accordingly. ... It’s entirely possible to know things are pretty good, yet feel as if they’re terrible.
This phenomenon has curious parallels with the “busyness epidemic.” Data on leisure time suggests we’re not much busier than we were, yet we feel busier, partly because – for “knowledge workers.” anyway – there’s no limit to the number of emails we can get, the demands that can be made of us, or the hours of the day we can be in touch with the office. Work feels infinite, but our capacities are finite, therefore overwhelm is inevitable. ...
This isn’t an argument for avoiding news entirely... It’s just an argument for carefully pruning your incoming information streams, balancing the importance of staying informed against a pointless gloom that helps no one. You don’t want to shut out reality. But 24/7 exposure to everything purporting to be news these days isn’t “reality.” It paints a picture that’s equally fake – and way, way more stressful.
Oliver Burkeman, "Less News Is Good News" (Guardian)
Your inner creative self is like a part of your soul, and it has been with you from the beginning of your life. It's curious, open, and playful, delighting in new ideas, the joy of discovery, and the endless diversity of human expression. You may have forgotten about this part of you or learned to ignore it, but it can never die. ...
The trick is that we can't “think” our way into the inner creative self. It's more like a muscle that we can develop through active practice. This practice is creativity itself, a combination of how we look at the world and the actions we take to bring imagination into reality.
Jacob Nordby, "The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life"
Where our attention and affection lie, there too is our worship. Take care, then, where you direct your focus, desires, and dislikes. Be mindful of this when you participate in religious services and prayers. In devotion, be neither careless nor extravagant.
Epictetus ("The Manual," trans. Sam Torode)
Reading is not solitary. You will break bread with many authors who, although long dead, will seem more alive to you than your neighbours.
Doug Sikkema, "Twelve Rules for the Bookish Life" (Comment Magazine)
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Finding true joy is the hardest of all spiritual tasks. If the only way to make yourself happy is by doing something silly, do it.
Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
As a goose is not frightened by cackling nor a sheep by bleating, so let not the clamor of a senseless multitude alarm you.
Epictetus, "Enchiridon" (trans. George Long)
It is in our power to have no opinion about a thing, and not to be disturbed in our soul, for things themselves have no natural power to form our judgments.
Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations" (trans. George Long)
Sheep do not spit out grass to show the farmer how much they’ve eaten—they ruminate on it, digest it, then display the results in wool and milk. In the same way, do not spew your undigested thoughts; show their results in action.
Epictetus, "The Manual" (trans. Sam Torode)
It’s a cruel irony that the platforms on which we encounter and speak about these issues are simultaneously profiting from a collapse of context that keeps us from being able to think straight. This is where I think the idea of “doing nothing” can be of the most help. For me, doing nothing means disengaging from one framework (the attention economy) not only to give myself time to think, but to do something else in another framework.
Jenny Odell, "How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy"
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In light of social media’s drive for us to text and tweet and post endlessly, it should give us pause to wonder how many careless words we have spoken.
Kyle Tennant, "Unfriend Yourself: Three Days to Detox, Discern, and Decide About Social Media"
For all modern society’s promises of leisure, liberty and doing what you want, most of us are still slaves to a schedule we did not choose.
Tom Hodgkinson, "How to Be Idle: A Loafer's Manifesto"