Jason Lilly

“If we wish to engage in something like the substance of reality, we must be willing to risk the distinct possibility that our words will fail us. And so we must use all of them, in equal measure, to communicate adequately. We must see both sides. We must follow the line into each new dimension.”
― Rainier Wylde, As You Are: Meditations on Self and Other

“An aside that will appeal to the well-rounded reader: A creative high that increases physical and mental work capacity is accompanied by noradrenaline secretion. Perhaps this explains why the samurai were equally proficient at war and poetry.”
― Pavel Tsatsouline, The Quick and the Dead: Total Training for the Advanced Minimalist

“Safetyism be damned. Risk! Take the leaps you need to. Feel the heat you dread. Look into the light and move forward without fragelizing yourself and others. The hallmark of the change that is desired is that it requires the giving of oneself to the uncertain present, the unknown tomorrow.”
― Rainier Wylde, As You Are: Meditations on Self and Other

“I thought about how often this was needed in everyday life. How we feel lonely, sometimes to the point of tears, but we don’t let those tears come because we are not supposed to cry. Or how we feel a surge of love for a partner but we don’t say anything because we’re frozen with the fear of what those words might do to the relationship.
Morrie’s approach was exactly the opposite. Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won’t hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself, “All right, it’s just fear, I don’t have to let it control me. I see it for what it is.”
Same for loneliness: you let go, let the tears flow, feel it completely—but eventually be able to say, “All right, that was my moment with loneliness. I’m not afraid of feeling lonely, but now I’m going to put that loneliness aside and know that there are other emotions in the world, and I’m going to experience them as well.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson