Here's an interesting paradox, courtesy of David Whyte:
The deeper your commitment to the principles in your life, the more fluid life starts to feel.
True commitment often doesn't mean rigidity, it's more likely to result in flow and movement.
Commitment is liberating.
More brilliance from David Whyte on generosity in relationship
Learning to be generous with yourself ... for some of us, that's the hard part.
3/ Gratitude can be understood as a particular form of attention, one that unites awareness and appreciation in an open ended way.
In this sense it can absolutely be considered a practice, like meditation or prayer (though it's also not exactly the same as either of these).
Speaking of gratitude, there's a fine drizzle in the air in Oakland, CA, today.
It's barely there... just a few droplets... but it makes the air feel fresh and clean, and it's AMAZING.
Opening windows today.
Wow, that feels good.
It's green air quality for miles.
4/ "To hate our procrastinating tendencies is to hate our relationship with time itself" - David Whyte
5/ "any creative frontier is in its essence a conversational frontier"
First, a conversation within ourselves;
Then, that conversation carried into the broader world.
6/ "an endeavour achieved without delay ... is a bagatelle"
(NTSF, use "bagatelle" more often in casual conversation)
7/ This one is solid gold:
"Procrastination does not stop a project from coming to fruition; what stops us is giving up on an original idea because we have not got to the heart of the reason we are delaying, nor let the true form of our reluctance instruct us on the way ahead."
8/ my most Twitter-relevant David Whyte quote yet...
Note, he doesn't oversimplify by saying "distraction bad, focus good"...
Instead I think he suggests that both distraction and focus are necessary parts of the "dance of purpose".
May your distractions be worthy of you!
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@quotidiania @the_wilderless 2/ this paragraph right here: (the "melancholic", or, we could say, the "dysfunctional coper", fails, because he is making it all about HIM - which is to say, he falsely assumes that HE can "fix it all" with his intellect or his effort somehow, instead of simply feeling the loss)
@quotidiania @the_wilderless 3/ his delusional coping style comes about, because he has a poverty-mindset - his reaction to loss is to become more "grasping"
A thread about the "note taking wars", + why famous s$%-p#$ter Tiag@ F@rte does not have a clue what he is talking about
@obsdmd is a gorgeous, well executed product with a fantastic community behind it. Yay!
♥️🚀 ♥️
... but it is *not* a "roam-like".
2/n block referencing and outlining, as implemented by @RoamResearch, are WAY more than just check-boxes to tick, in some arbitrary feature-comparison list.
They are *core* features of the product.
... CORE features that cannot be tacked on, if they're not in the product-DNA.
3/n Yet, it takes time to see this.
... when I first started using Roam, I was so conditioned by the Wikipedia model of backlinked pages, I couldn't 1st see that the true revolution, is at a deeper level.
Your team is currently hard at work designing what we believe will be an extraordinary 6 week learning experience for our beloved #roamcult -->
2/n There will be 2 groups working side by side - Beau will lead a discussion of Ahrens' "How to Take Smart Notes" and I'll lead, for returning members, "The Culture Code" by Dan Coyle.
My group will have a limited number of spots. Beau's group will not be size-limited.
3/n if you are unable to join the Coyle group (enrollment has to be capped, sorry) don't worry; you can still follow along; my plan is to live tweet + carry our discussion out to Twitter
Furthermore, the plan is to bring you more "episodes".
Hear me out, what if looking *really carefully* at the past can accomplish more than fantasizing about the future;
I think this year, I am going to focus on new-years RE-solutions, which will entirely be RE-implementing all the solutions I've already used, to make life awesomer.
2/ "I am at the confluence of past and future; melding these streams creatively is what makes life itself feel alive"
... is (I think) a paraphrase of Henri Bergson, of whose work I have not yet read enough...
3/ can't believe that I somehow failed to tag @calhistorian into a tweet thread rethinking the relationship between past and future ...
2/ was MOST amazing was not the palette + the rich hues of the sunlight cascading upwards from beneath the horizon,
No
The most amazing part was taking a moment to see how softly the clouds were scudding across it all.
The seeming delicacy of this, belying the enormous -->
3/...power of wind, water, heat, majesty of sunlight from ninety three million miles away lifting water and then causing it to slide gently across the sky in one of many convection currents that slide in + out forming a gently drifting cloud