Dopamine and the thrill of the chase
"I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them." - Andy Bernard, The Office
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Turns out, the path really is the destination
“Once you realize that the road is the goal and you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.” - Nisargadatta Maharaj
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When “Manifesting” Goes Horribly Wrong
"If the process of life can create and take care of the entire universe, is it really reasonable for us to assume that nothing good will happen unless we force it to?" - Michael Singer
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Take Boring Breaks (life optimization)
“The art of moderation is dramatically harder to master than the art of excess.” - Bruce Frantzis
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How Elon Thinks (Part 2)
"Physics is the law, everything else is a recommendation." - Elon Musk
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Why We Backslide & Lose Progress (Part 3)
"The big trick in the game of inner development is mastering the part of you that doesn't want to develop." - Why We Backslide, Part 1
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Why We Backslide & Lose Progress (Part 2)
"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek." - Joseph Campbell
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Why We Backslide & Lose Progress (Part 1)
"Leaps forward are often preceded by desperate, regressive steps backward.” - Don Beck & Christopher Cohen, Spiral Dynamics
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Walking Through Fire
"She doesn’t get to be a healer because the gods bestow powers upon her, but through the prolonged, rigorous, all-consuming struggle of her own self-healing... You don’t teleport up the mountain, you climb." - Jed McKenna
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The Theme Of Your Life (Part 4)
"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea.” - Herman Melville
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