We need to view the past as a book to be learned from, not a place we want to go. If we learn from it the right way, then we find the things that were most noble or choice-worthy about our past, individually or collectively. And then talk about how to recover that in a new fashion that takes us to places we couldn’t go otherwise.
Look, I’m nostalgic about times that I know I was miserable at the time, but I feel nostalgic about them now. It’s just the way our mind relates—in a way, it’s a good things—it helps us put into perspective things we didn’t appreciate at the time, but it’s also very risky.
—Mayor Pete Buttigieg
Category: TRANSCIENCE
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What attracts me is elsewhere, and I don’t know where that elsewhere is.
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“It seems we don’t know how to love the ones we love until they disappear from our lives.”
—Joshua Fields Millburn, Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists -
In time I recognized this, that I was lonely, and that my loneliness was entirely self-inflicted, but by the time I did I couldn’t do anything about it. I felt weighed down by some kind of heavier gravity. I felt like a satellite that’d fallen out of orbit — slowly drifting away into darkness, further and further away from the place I used to be.
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You can’t resent other people because you let yourself down. But you can try.
—John Tottenham -
No one should be burdened with the “failure” label just for playing their hand in the grand game of life. It’s undeniable that some people have the fortune to start with a strong hand, graced with physical beauty, social grace, or remarkable talents. Or, perhaps, they simply emerged from the right door, under the right star.
Bimbo Ubermensch
The Ocean -
We all have value.
We all contribute. We all give back—if not through paid work, then as part of the human ecosystem.
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