SELECTIONS 

2024 sample

I. Compass 

• All in. All the time. 

• We are, in the end, a measure of the love we leave behind. 

II. Principles

• Intention > attention

• Creativity > productivity 

• Process > destination

• We > me

III. Reading (2024 EDition)

• The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak

• Braiding Sweetgrass by Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge & the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

• The Secret Pulse of Time by Stefan Klein 

• Aftershocks: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity by Nadai Owusu

• A Path with Heart by Jack Kornfield

• Figuring by Maria Popova 

• Blue Mind by Wallace J. Nichols

• Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein 

IV. Listening 

• ♫ Playlist

V. Art 

• Voyages Immobiles 35, Yannick Fournié

• The Kiss, Gustav Klimt 

• Rebel Velvet II, Max Zorn

Words

• "I don't believe in magic, the young boy said. The old man smiled, you will when you see her.” – Atticus

• "The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society's values, can force it to change." – Samuel R. Delany

• “The world is suffering from intolerance and bigotry, and from the belief that vigorous action is admirable even when misguided; whereas what is needed in our very complex modern society is calm consideration, with readiness to call dogmas in question and freedom of mind to do justice to the most diverse points of view.” – Bertrand Russell

• "There's got to be something countering acts of destruction with acts of creation." – Theaster Gates

• “I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.” – Rainer Maria Rilke 

• “It is much easier to terrorize than to charm.” – René Magritte

• "It's not activivism. It's people standing with their truth and dignity." – Marie-Therese Png

• "She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together." – J.D. Salinger

• "[I am] loved and accepted in a whole and total way. Few of us have ever been loved in this way." — Jack Kornfield

• "Not all those who wander are lost." – Tolkien