On 9/13/26
Daily Letter
Mind · Inspiration & Quotes × People & Society
The law of life is the law of belief. A belief is a thought in your mind. Do not believe in things to harm or hurt you. Believe in the power of your subconscious to heal, inspire, strengthen, and prosper you. According to your belief it is done unto you
Once the subconscious mind accepts an idea, it begins to execute it. It's an interesting subtle truth that the law of the subconscious mind works for good and bad ideas alike.
One of the sources of unhappiness, fatigue, and nervous strain is inability to be interested in anything that is not of practical importance in one's own life. The result of this is that the conscious mind gets no rest from a certain small number of matters, each of which probably involves some anxiety and some element of worry.
The world is vast and our own powers are limited. If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. And to demand too much is the surest way of getting even less than is possible. The man who can forget his worries by means of a genuine interest in, say, the Council of Trent, or the life history of stars, will find that, when he returns from his excursion into the impersonal world, he has acquired a poise and calm which enable him to deal with his worries in the best way, and he will in the meantime have experienced a genuine even if temporary happiness.
Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
Crystallizing public opinion
For the most part we do not first see, and then define, we define first and then see. In the great blooming, buzzing confusion of the outer world we pick out what our culture has already defined for us, and we tend to perceive that which we have picked out in the form stereotyped for us by our culture.
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
Public · Design & Objects
Clown is trying to run for sure
You can only properly serve one customer, the kids or the teachers. The schooling system seems to have made a decision
Inspiration & Quotes × AI & New Tech
The Abbasid caliphs had set the model for public debates on religion.
At one held at the caliphal court in the 830s, a Mutazila scholar took on an intimidated representative of the embattled Sunnis on the issue of whether man brings about his own actions (the Mutazila stance) or whether God does (the Sunni one). When the Sunni let his arm dangle at the elbow and asked, 'Who is moving this?" - he expected the answer to be God - the Mutazila responded, 'Someone whose mother is a whore?
The caliph approved.
Misc
Every thought is a cause, every condition an effect
"This Is Not a Phase" wedding veil by Holly Winter Couture, with metallic silver and ivory embroidery of the lunar cycle along the bottom edge
“Do you believe in free will?”
Of course, what choice do I have?
Trying again is an act of rebellion
Never trying again is an act of submission
What is to give light must endure the burning