some of my thoughts and notes
If you have time to spare, I highly recommend reading Maria Popova's review of The Best of The Marginalian 2022 that she sent out in her newsletter this morning.
In this beautiful piece, Maria Popova distils what Poet Donald Hall said about the Secret to Lasting Love.
We took a pretty long walk today. We didn't really mind looking at the weather forecast or where to walk, we just met in Darmstadt and went straight for the forest.
A bit of a clunky title for a chapter almost at the end of the book.
“Fearlessness is what love seeks… Such fearlessness exists only in the complete calm that can no longer be shaken by events expected of the future… Hence the only valid tense is the present, the Now.”
I'm just starting to unfold Ken Wilber's book Integral Life Practice into a new structure, in the hope to make it more accessible for my future self and other future humans.
that it is beautiful that you exist?
Today when I met my father for the first time since my return from Norway I told him about what I think is the most important thing I learned during this time:
The ability to consciously regulate the intensity of my emotions.