Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
What You Practice, You Become
You are not only what you intend. You are, more honestly, what you repeat. The small thing you do again and again is quietly voting on who y...
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Integrative Medicine Scientist · Formulator · Poet · Alchemist · Builder
Bridging science and spirit. Creating solutions. Writing for those becoming more human.
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
You are not only what you intend. You are, more honestly, what you repeat. The small thing you do again and again is quietly voting on who y...
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
Rest is not the absence of work. It is part of it.
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
If you are missing someone tonight, you do not have to explain or resolve it. Missing them is its own form of company. Let the feeling stay...
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
Discipline is often sold as self-punishment: early rises, cold showers, relentless output. That version exhausts people quickly, because it...
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
If the day feels too large, do the smallest honest thing available. Answer the message you have been avoiding. Write the first true sentence...
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
Some thoughts on legacy, and why the most durable things are rarely the loudest.
Do not build merely to prove that you were here. Build something useful enough to remain when your name no longer needs to.
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
Somewhere between who you are and who you are seen to be, a gap opens. It widens quietly. Close it a little today by doing one thing well th...
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
The night is where you are least performed. Whatever you are when no one is watching is close to the truth. Be gentle with that person. They...
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
We read other people's stories with patience and generosity, and our own with a prosecutor's eye. We remember our failures in high definitio...