Nate Boyden

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen. — Alan Watts | | □∧◯

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If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life. — Wumen Huikai | | □∧◯

Self-victimhood is a form of self-pity that protects people from responsibility for their own actions. Identify with your strength, not your weakness. Sartre said, "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."

"Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons." - Douglas Adams

I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking. ~ Albert Einstein

Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are. Try something different.

Tackling destructive emotions and practicing loving-kindness is how we should live in the here and now. I am convinced we can become happier individuals, happier communities and a happier humanity by cultivating a warm heart, allowing our better selves to prevail.

Our modern education systems don't reveal much understanding of how to transform our emotions. To do so, we have to use our intelligence. We need to conduct ourselves with non-violence and on the basis of compassion, cultivate respect for others.

"We favor the sensational and the extremely visible. This affects the way we judge heroes. There is little room in our consciousness for heroes who do not deliver visible resultsor those heroes who focus on process rather than results." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Black Swan

People now fear ill opinion more than injury. Many cultivate a calculated blandness, a rational response to ambiguous risk. They know ANY controversy will harm their permanent online reputation. Free expression is becoming a luxury good that most people feel they can’t afford.

For me the best introduction is the human face. When I see two eyes, one mouth, one nose, I know I’m dealing with another human being like me. I’m like those young children who don’t care about their companions’ background so long as they smile and are willing to play.

True freedom comes only when you let go of all expectations.

I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. ~ Albert Einstein

A fundamentally positive approach is to take account of the oneness of humanity. Dividing the world into 'us' and 'them' might have worked in the past, but it doesn't any more. We have to talk through our problems with our opponents, thinking of them as our fellow human beings.

Non-stop news, notifications, noise. We can’t hear our own thoughts with so many voices in our heads. Creation requires elimination. Make some room for meaningful complexity by reducing meaningless complexity. Carve out a space for slower, deeper thinking and generative work.