JJ van de Vyver

“It seems inevitable that our experience must be right and our categories of thought must be wrong or inadequate, and that the insoluble puzzles which arise must be due to a misreading of the facts.” - Jan Smuts

"The central rule in life is that it is much, much better to panic early than late." @nntaleb

Never explain why something important is important.

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“As dreams are the healing songs from the wilderness of our unconscious — So wild animals, wild plants, wild landscapes are the healing dreams from the deep singing mind of the Earth.” - Dale Pendell

“Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.” - Lao Tzu

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“The way you tell your story to yourself matters.” - @amyjccuddy

“Heredity is nothing more than stored environment.” - Luther Burbank

“to understand light you need first to have been buried in the deep-down dark.” - @RobGMacfarlane

“The times are urgent, let us slow down.” - African proverb

“The mind has no place here; the heart is at work.”

"The only real question to ask is whether we are ready to allow ourselves what we desire."

“Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in so doing, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and do not learn.” - Basho

“And we can begin immediately to start having the conversations we want to be hearing, and telling the story of our time anew.” - @kristatippett

"Myths aren't false stories about the ancient past. They're symbolic stories about perennial patterns that are always with us." - John Vervaeke

"Wisdom is about realising - in both senses of the word: becoming aware, and making real - meaning in life in a profound way." - John Vervaeke

“Our intelligence is only a special instance of a general condition.” - Stephen Harrod Buhner

“The door to the soul is unlocked; you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to.” - Robert Bly

"We think that human intelligence is an exception in the universe, instead of being a distillation of it."