I think that in many ways “talent” is an adolescent idea that we unknowingly carry with us into adulthood, failing to question its worth or validity ever again.
The smaller thing that you will actually do is often worth more than the larger thing that you’ll only think of doing. At a first pass, this seems rather simple and obvious. But therein lies another lesson—the most powerful notions are often the ones that lack the complexity to be anything else. As the saying...
Spirituality is not about the apprehending of facts or anything that can be known to be true. Spirituality is about changing the way in which we attend to the world. And likewise, the very world that presents itself to us, in the first place. Spirituality is not about gaining knowledge of the world, but about...
Your biggest problems and deepest fears all have one thing in common: they feel incredibly real to you, right now. This is part of what makes them problems and fears, to begin with. But this happens to be both the lock on your prison cell, and the key to your freedom.