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rot

ryan miller — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:34:00 +0000

...it turns out that every culture has a favorite fermented food. Controlled rot tastes good.

act in freedom

ryan miller — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:28:00 +0000

The wise never act with selfish attachment to the fruit of their labor; they give their best in fortune and misfortune alike. Such people act in freedom.

create

ryan miller — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:27:00 +0000

Create like a god. Command like a king. Work like a slave. —Constantine Brancusi

regret

ryan miller — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 10:40:00 +0000

We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.

Kathryn Schulz: Don't regret regret

quit

ryan miller — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:25:00 +0000

“Quitters never win and winners never quit.” Bad advice. Winners quit all the time. They just quit the right stuff at the right time.

joy

ryan miller — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:18:00 +0000

Joy comes to us in moments— ordinary moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.

happiness

ryan miller — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:34:22 +0000

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.

illusory religion vs real religion

ryan miller — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:18:59 +0000

The maxim of “illusory religion” is as follows: “Fear not; trust in God and He will see that none of the things you fear will happen to you.” “Real religion,” said Macmurray, has a different maxim: “Fear not; the things you are afraid of are quite likely to happen to you, but they are nothing to be afraid of.

working against God

ryan miller — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:34:00 +0000

Which leads us to a crucial insight: these were very religious people, deeply committed to the scriptures, who were quoting the scriptures in such a way that those people were actually working against God’s purposes in the world.

write

ryan miller — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 19:37:00 +0000

Write even when you don’t feel like writing. There is no muse. It’s hard work. You can always edit a bad page, but you can’t edit a blank page.

change

ryan miller — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 19:38:00 +0000

“Change,” Joshua said. “A Messiah has to bring change. Change comes through action. Balthasar once said to me, ‘There’s no such thing as a conservative hero.’ He was wise, that old man."