Don’t think about what can happen in a month.
Don’t think about what can happen in a year.
Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you
and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be.
// Eric Thomas
philosophy
MIND: Sifting
You have been offered “the gift of crisis.” As Kathleen Norris reminds us, the Greek root of the word crisis is “to sift,” as in, to shake out the excesses and leave only what’s important. That’s what crises do. They shake things up until we are forced to hold on to only what matters most. The rest falls away.
Carry On, Warrior // Glennon Melton
MIND: Upgrade
Whether it’s our routines or our relationships, it’s our responsibility to actively and continuously make them the way we want them to be.
The Miracle Morning // Hal Elrod
MIND: Écrivain
That’s why I write, because life never works except in retrospect.
You can’t control life, at least you can control your version.
Stranger Than Fiction // Chuck Palahniuk
MIND: Intentional
To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to “be happy.” But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to “be happy.”
Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation.
Man’s Search for Meaning // Viktor E. Frankl
SOL: Guarded
I was saving all
my best things for better days –
all I have is now.
3AM Thoughts // AKA “Haiku 192.”
MIND: Equitable
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Meditations // Marcus Aurelius
MIND: Polarity
How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow?
I must have a dark side also if I am to be whole.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul // C.G. Jung
MIND: Stalled
Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.
The Power of Now // Eckhart Tolle
SOL: Structure
One day none of this
will matter. I wanted to
make some sense of it.
3AM Thoughts // AKA “Haiku 179.”
