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To take a situation where everything seems to be absolutely fucked and still somehow make it good.
Our values aren’t just collections of feelings. Our values are stories.
“There is an emotional gravity to our values: we attract those into our orbit who value the same things we do, and instinctively repel, as if by reverse magnetism, those whose values are contrary to our own.
To not hope for better. To be better.
they showed mostly blue dots, everyone was pretty
More stuff doesn’t make us freer, it imprisons us with anxiety over whether we chose or did the best thing.
You can become freer right now simply by choosing the limitations you want to impose on yourself. You can choose to wake up earlier each morning, to block your email until midafternoon each day, to delete social media apps from your phone. These limitations will free you because they will liberate your time, attention, and power of choice. They treat your consciousness as an end in itself.
