Maïa Hruska

" Commence par faire le nécessaire, puis fais ce qu'il est possible de faire, et tu réaliseras l'impossible sans t'en apercevoir." Saint François d'Assise

Résumé en une ligne du Brave Soldat Chveïk:

There’s an old Chinese proverb that I love: “If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days of sorrow.”

Intellectualism is a common cover-up for fear of direct experience. - Carl Jung

This is the incredible South Door of St Saviour's Church in Dartmouth, UK. While the iron says 1631 testing shows the oak wood dates back to 1361.

One of the best tweets to me

“happy to hop on a call” i would actually rather join a 14th century monastery

Four days in the wilderness without screens improved creative problem-solving by 50%. The modern brain is not underloaded. It is interrupted.

love letter from 1913 that opens up to form an art gallery

If Steve Jobs were still alive, he would have the moral authority to face and maybe even to solve this problem. But I doubt anyone in the phone business now does.

“If I were only interested in facts I would buy the telephone directory of Manhattan. It has four million entries, and they are all correct, but it does not illuminate.” — Werner Herzog

"L'acte méchant est un transfert sur autrui de la dégradation qu'on porte en soi." Simone Weil

so much of adulthood is just grieving in secret. grieving ex lovers, grieving dead friendships, grieving your parents sinking into old age, grieving the person you thought you'd grow into. grieving cities you never got to live in. grieving parts of you that couldn't survive. Scam

“Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Net migration of Dalmatians to the U.K. plummets

Mark Manson was right when he said: “Beware: learning more is a smart person’s favorite form of procrastination.”

Uneducated people delight in argument and fault-finding, for it is easy to find fault, but difficult to recognize the good and its inner necessity.

A lot of people on this site haven’t read the prologue to Missing Out by Adam Phillips and it shows

C.S. Lewis on the art of Faith