“I wanted it to be true more than just about anyone, but there's a lot of country between what you want to be true and how the world is.”
Source: The Island of Last Things
“Assumptions are shortcuts through the dark, they make you feel fast, until you crash into reality.”
Source: The 4 Aces of Management: Analyze. Adjust. Ascend. Automate
“We defend our inner truth by highlighting only what’s polished, while the raw self often stays hidden.”
“We see the world through what feels true to us, and that dictates both what we notice and the meaning we read into it.”
Source: Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel
“Our culture trains us to consume “happy meat” from the “happy farm.” The meat industry regularly feeds us images of cows in buttercup pastures, lamb frolicking in clover, chickens in straw nests, always blue sky and sunshine. To see anything else, to see the reality of the filthy feed lots and sheds packed with millions of animals living in the near dark, to slip through the blood and entrails in a slaughterhouse full of knives, to hear the sound of their screams and the clanking of chains, the cursing of the workers, and continue to consume animals, would make us complicit. We want to remain innocent and oblivious, shame-free.”
Source: Cruel: Bearing Witness to Animal Exploitation
“When everyone lives inside a personalized narrative, shared reality becomes the first casualty.”
Source: The Colony Blueprint: A Story of Human Survival and Socioeconomic Harmony
“To awaken is not to reject the dream. It is to become lucid within it, and know that we are not the story but the storyteller. Not the role but the actor. Not the wave but the ocean. And from that knowing, we live more fully, love more deeply, and create more freely.”
Source: Consciousness Rising
“In truth, nothing and no one is ever lost. The forms we love change shape, but the life within them remains. When we see that clearly, death — our own or a loved one — becomes a graced opportunity to know that life does not and cannot end.”
Source: Consciousness Rising
“Presence is the practice of fully inhabiting where you are, with openness and attention, rather than rushing past toward what comes next. Presence does not mean every moment is blissful. Sometimes the present holds discomfort, uncertainty, or boredom. To be present is not to deny these, but to allow them space without immediately trying to escape.”
“Neurons are the prophets of reality, consciousness is the scripture.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop