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Routine

Cyanotype of scientific equipment in a large room draped with cloth
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Routine expands time.

When we make suggestions to ourselves instead of making a decision, we lose the robustness and mindspace that consistency opens up.

Maximizing one’s space of generative thinking supports all present and future endeavors.

It is tempting to look for signals of vitality in external achievements, but nothing happens in the outside world without first passing through an inner world.

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