Recently, I started keeping a #commonplace_book. Similar to a journal, but different in a very functional way, a commonplace book is a way to gather all your thoughts and learnings in a "common place."

My book has become a wellspring of motivation and inspiration. I've leapt from Thoreau to Gladstone to Zeno to Chimamanda to Castaneda to Siddhartha.

This morning, randomly, I was reading Buddha's Advice to Sigala. It was #uncompromisingly yet #brilliant.

https://kappatsupatchi.wordpress.com/2016/09/01/how-to-live-a-good-human-life-the-buddhas-advice-to-sigala/

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