Minimalism is not about deprivation; minimalism is about aligning your short-term actions with your long-term values.

— The Minimalists (@TheMinimalists) August 30, 2017

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Source: Lord Buddha suggests we let go of the need to be right… – Council of Love with Linda Dillon

Neil Gaiman from his University of the Arts commencement speech: “The first problem of any kind of even limited success is the unshakable conviction that you are getting away with something and that any moment now they will discover you. It’s Impostor Syndrome, something my wife Amanda christened the Fraud Police.” Source: Impostor’s Syndrome and the Afflictions of the Accomplished | Psychology Today

Hiking the Appalachian trail is one of the most challenging, yet rewarding things a human can do. But let’s face it. Who among us will hike over two thousand miles? Nuts to that. Let’s just watch it.

Source: Hike the Appalachian trail in just six minutes – Holy Kaw!

The high of learning your wife is pregnant, especially for the first time, could never reach the depths of the despair that tears you apart when you learn she will miscarry. But that is just the beginning.

We had 3 miscarriages in 18 months. We also had 4 more boys after that. I wish I would have had the wisdom of this article then. Source: What to Say and Do When Your Wife or Partner Has a Miscarriage

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Some small business ads are really stupid. JS Abernathy Dental’s advertisement, however, is pretty amazing. He inserted himself into Star Wars for a surprisingly funny ad.

Source: Dentist hilariously inserts himself into Star Wars for ad – Holy Kaw!

Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward the office, so toward wealth. Epictetus (via purplebuddhaproject)

Dhamma is simple. Live with love and be aware. It is only the mind that complicates this teaching and says that it is not enough. Michael Kewley (via purplebuddhaproject)

You ask about “retaining passion.” I think the issue is more one of how to cultivate wise passion that is grounded in care and love. If the kind of passion being cultivated involves attachment, life will be lived in a narrow and contracted way. Whenever we attach to things being a certain way and according to a personal agenda, we make problems for others and ourselves. By contrast, non-attachment brings spaciousness and inclusiveness. Source: How do we retain passion while accepting all of life equally? – Lion’s Roar

“Hold yourself as a mother holds her child,” the Buddha once counseled. With kindness, tolerance and a reverence for this life so graciously bestowed. Source: Mindfully Musing – Of Warmth and Shadow.