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08/30/2026

08/30/2026

Today I will revel in nature, like Hobbes

08/30/2026

08/29/2026

This is an excellent talk, well worth listening to.

08/29/2026

08/29/2026

If you wish to improve, to develop skills you do not currently possess, do not have a strong familiarity with, then you must be open to learning. To learn, you must know that you do not know. You must be okay with all that the learning process asks of you, which is, primarily, making many attempts and learning from both positive and negative results.
Learning never superimposes preconceptions. It is a highly receptive state. True learning is the state of presence, where everything is information.
If you are uncomfortable appearing a certain way, you are more concerned with appearance than learning. There is a fear there that prevents receptivity and growth.
Until that fear is faced, you will remain stagnant.

08/29/2026

There are those who have insecurities deeply embedded within them, and their basis for any human-to-human interaction is always going to be competition. It is a power dynamic. It is governed by appearances. It is governed by unaddressed fears. These dynamics may result in striving, performance, but when there is fear, there is no true growth or alignment.
Those who will benefit your growth are more grounded, non-competitive, and their striving is purely personal, aiming to discover limitations within themselves that may be blind them and seeking understanding and compassionate growth. They are cooperative-minded. They will not encourage power dynamics, or participate in them.
If you find yourself gravitating toward power dynamics, the goal may be to reflect to find what fears are guiding your choices. Once those fears are discovered, listened to, and understood, you can move beyond them. You will realize you do not need to compete, compare, or any of that nonsense. You come home to yourself. This is a very important journey.
Once you come home to yourself, you will naturally be drawn to others who are genuinely cooperative, as well. The majority of people are competitive, so this will be a big change. But, as you have come home to yourself, this will not disturb your inner state because you no longer feel the need to compare. Thus, you don't sit in judgment. You peacefully gravitate towards what aligns.
The people who will be your best aides in growth will reflect back your best qualities. You will feel inspired because of their own qualities. It will feel synergistic. And it encourages authenticity, not replication. Individuals coexisting authentically. Imagine for yourself what they would be like.
You must look within to discover what you truly want: to remain in power dynamics, or to coexist authentically in synergistic, cooperative dynamics. If you choose the former, you will discover exactly why you cannot move beyond your current state. Each produces a very different reality. And you won't be able to cherry pick. Each exists on different vibrations, like different radio stations. You can only exist in the one you vibe with.

08/29/2026

08/29/2026

When our eyes are graced with wonder, the world reveals its wonders to us. There are people who see only dullness in the world and that is because their eyes have already been dulled. So much depends on how we look at things. The quality of our looking determines what we come to see. Too often we squander the invitations extended to us because our looking has become repetitive and blind. The mystery and beauty is all around us but we never manage to see it. When the imagination awakens, the inner world illuminates. We begin to glimpse things that no-one speaks about, that the outer world seems to ignore.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from the books, Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (US) / Divine Beauty (Europe)
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

Cottage Window, County Clare, Ireland
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