Timeless Ideas | July 25, 2021
Here’s your weekly dose of timeless ideas to sharpen your mind, make smarter decisions, and live better.
Quotes
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You can intend for things to be different in the future, but in this moment, accept things as they are.
― Deepak Chopra
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How will you know how strong you are unless your strength is tested?
― Steve Taylor
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Great results can be achieved with small forces.
― Sun Tzu
Ideas
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The important thing is allowing the whole world to wake up. Part of allowing the whole world to wake up is recognizing that the whole world is free—everybody is free to be as they are. Until the whole world is free to agree with you or disagree with you, until you have given the freedom to everyone to like you or not like you, to love you or hate you, to see things as you see them or to see things differently—until you have given the whole world its freedom—you’ll never have your freedom.
Adyashanti in The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment
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Nothing that your partner does is personal. Your partner is dealing with her own garbage. If you don't take it personally, it will be so easy for you to have a wonderful relationship with your partner.
Miguel Ruiz in The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship
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With absolute humility, the ego dissolves. It is a collection of arbitrary mental processes that gain force only because of vanity and habit. If one lets go of the vanity of thought, it dissolves. All thought is vanity. All opinions are vanities. The pleasure of vanity is therefore the basis of the ego—unplug it and it collapses.
David R. Hawkins in Dissolving the Ego, Realizing the Self
Articles Worth Reading
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Loneliness: coping with the gap where friends used to be
Olivia Laing | The Guardian
The other difficulty is that we have unrealistic expectations of friendship, just as we have unrealistic expectations of romantic love, including fantasies around its permanence and stability. In fact, friendship can involve conflict, it can end brutally and it can be as deeply, intensely heartbreaking as any sexual relationship. It’s crucial we understand that friendship can involve disappointment on both sides, and to build a container that means it’s safe to discuss these things, to weather strife together.
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The unspoken reasons employees don’t want remote work to end
Gwen Moran | Fast Company
It’s no secret that employee-employer tensions about heading back to the workplace are growing. As more employers push to get employees back in-house, the workers themselves are taking a harder stand. Sure, they have more time and productivity is up. But there are also deeply personal reasons employees don’t want to go back to work as it was.
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John Rapley | Aeon
What can the decline of the Roman Empire and the end of European feudalism tell us about COVID-19 and the future of the West?
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