Abie Cohen

Having them is literally like outsourcing your heart and letting pieces of it walk around the world completely unprotected. But ironically, that doesn’t actually make them extensions of us. Like I think the reason those pieces of heart feel unprotected is because they’re still mine, but not part of me anymore.

There is a well of potent energy inside of us all. This energy is tied to our creativity, is tied to our sexuality. It might in fact actually be those things. It is the power source — and the better we get about pursuing the outlets that connect us to our creativity, the more refined our deepest discharges become.

They show me what “infinity thinking” looks like—the Evolutionary Braid of Time. All of creation entangled with itself, from microbes to dinosaurs to horses to humans to sentient AIs. My consciousness hits the limits of my own body—all I want is to break out of this infinite loop. I feel how frustration becomes the impetus for every leap in evoluti... See more

I get it, humans - me included - are like this sometimes, and I have a great deal of compassion for it, but I do not want to be in a relationship with someone who's straining against themselves. Judgment is never isolated; if I become one with them, their inward violence will slam up against me, too. I don't want to be put in a position where my af... See more