Quotes
“
When someone speaks of a place, you have to ask, “When?” Geography is four-dimensional. You can’t know a place - only a place as it was at a time. Where is bound to when.
Derek Sivers
Read post
22 May 2026
Fragments
Lines worth keeping: beautiful, sharp, or simply hard to shake.
Featured Quote
29 May 2026
Richard Rohr
We cannot understand anything well once we have approved or disapproved of it. There is too much of me invested there.
When someone speaks of a place, you have to ask, “When?” Geography is four-dimensional. You can’t know a place - only a place as it was at a time. Where is bound to when.
People are not passive vessels into which culture is poured; each person is a cultural co-creator, embracing some bits of their culture, rejecting others.
Writing is not about accumulating more experiences, because that often creates more pressure. It’s about paying better attention. It’s about awareness.
If you expect the worst, you’ll never be disappointed. If you assume everything is corrupt, you can’t be betrayed. But this protection comes at a terrible price.
The same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life also against being opened up and transformed...
You may think that in everyday life, the things you see and hear influence what you feel, but it’s mostly the other way around: What you feel alters your sight and hearing.
Angry people are always in search of others they can be angry at. Anger is unattractive. Anger is stupid. A person who is perpetually angry is always mishearing and misreading others.
When you give a depressed person advice on how they can get better, there’s a good chance all you are doing is telling the person that you just don’t get it.
The people who tell us that AI will dominate our future and take our jobs are the people who are hoping that will be true.
To be reasonable is to have the capacity to recognise that we aren’t the only ones making judgments of value…
Our differences of perception are rooted deep in the hidden kingdom of the unconscious mind…
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
It was the nationalism of Britain that had humiliated India. This would not be resolved by yet another nationalism trying to counteract it.
To not be able to see the stars is a deprivation of our inner world, and thus a diminishing of our imagination…
Your work is the very special thing that you add to this world. Your vision. Your light. Your love. What you share. What you create. How you make people feel.
Complexipacity is the capacity to thrive in complexity. It’s not about simplifying the world around us—it’s about expanding ourselves.