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    “How you handle even minor adversity might seem like nothing, but, in fact, it reveals everything.”

    Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic (Page 193)

      Men go forth to wonder at the heights of mountains,

      the huge waves of the sea,

      the broad flow of the rivers,

      the vast compass of the ocean,

      the courses of the stars,

      and they pass by themselves without wondering.

      Saint Augustine, via Becoming Wise (Page 163)

        “All art holds the knowledge that we’re both living and dying at the same time. It can hold it. And thank God it can, because nothing out in the corporate world is going to shine that back to us, but art holds it.”

        Marie Howe, via Becoming Wise (Page 148)

          “We find fulfillment where we choose to find our fulfillment. And if you’re told you can only find it here and you don’t look at where it is, which is your life, you keep thinking it’s coming. Oh, it’ll be here one day. I’ll get the big love. Well, you have the big love. It’s already here.”

          Eve Ensler, via Becoming Wise (Page 145)

            “My heart cannot be educated by myself. It can only come out of a relationship with others. And if we accept being educated by others, to let them explain to us what happens to them, and to let yourself be immersed in their world so that they can get into our world, then you begin to share something very deep.”

            Xavier Le Pichon, via Becoming Wise (Page 143)

              “The way to set moral change in motion, [Anthony Appiah] says, is not to go for the jugular, or even for dialogue—straight to the things that divide you. Talk about sports. Talk about the weather. Talk about your children. Make a human connection. Change comes about in part, as he describes it, by way of ‘conversation in the old-fashioned sense’—simple association, habits of coexistence, seeking familiarity around mundane human qualities of who we are.”

              Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise (Page 135)

                “I come to understand that for most of my life, when I was looking for love, I was looking to be loved. In this, I am a prism of my world. I am a novice at love in all its fullness, a beginner.”

                Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise (Page 108)

                  “Love is the superstar virtue of virtues, and the most watered down word in the English language.”

                  Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise (Page 104)

                    “Love is something we only master in moments.”

                    Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise (Page 68)

                      “You can’t dominate people without separating them from each other and from themselves. The more people get plugged back into their bodies, into each other, the more impossible it will be for us to be dominated and occupied. I think that’s really the work right now, and I don’t mean that in a narcissistic way. I mean, how in our daily lives are we connecting in every single respect with ourselves and everything around us? Because that’s where transcendence comes from. That’s where real energetic transformation comes from.”

                      Eve Ensler, via Becoming Wise (Page 97)