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your relationship with the divine always takes the shape of your relational patterns in general.

But then, somehow, it got in. No. Not got in. That's the wrong way of putting it. Music doesn't get in. Music is already in. Music simply uncovers wha

Another mode, that I haven’t worked with at all, is producing textual hyperobjects that require a bit of software to properly articulate, such as an e

For an idea to spread, you need something people can repeat at dinner, put in a pitch deck, tweet without thinking too hard. These words function as c

The best tools amplify us. They meet us where we are and keep up with us as we grow.

In light of these ideas, we should consider a statement made by the 14th Dalai Lama: In this century, human knowledge is extremely expanded and develo

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Of course Schubert might not be the right prescription, and finding the proper dose takes experimentation. Why is it that one Bach suite calms a teena

Listening to Edith Piaf in Oppert’s presence, a 65-year-old man with A.L.S., a former boxer, removes his oxygen mask to sing along and proclaim: “I’m

In the era of the never-ending playlist, when tunes are almost too algorithmically available, these writers remind that a regular appointment of consc

Tao Te Ching says, “Do nothing, and everything gets done.”

Of this there can be no question — creative work requires a loyalty as complete as the loyalty of water to the force of gravity. A person trudging thr

There is no other way work of artistic worth can be done. And the occasional success, to the striver, is worth everything. The most regretful people o

I'm a big fan of the "GPS Theory" when you miss a turn, your GPS doesn't judge you, it recalculates. No matter how many detours you take, it finds ano

Identify ambition that I vibe with

If you’re an expert navigating a novel problem, an LLM won’t imagine a new solution for you. But they become a gift for generalists, who can use them

Early means it’s okay to still be figuring things out.Early means it’s okay to be misunderstood.Early means it’s okay to bring people along for the ri

I used to think that the way towards more genuine conversation was advancing the schedule of intimacy instantly by plunging into difficult, weird, or

Scarcity is, we don’t have what we need, and so there’s a way of thinking that’s like, in that moment in time, you felt a need and you kind of threw a

meaning making disproportionately happens at the last 5% of an experience. “What transpired here? What did we learn here? How have I been changed by w

But when Rosa reaches for the perfect adjective to describe this feeling of both acting on the world and being acted on by it, engaging with it boldly

Check out Chat with Jayasāra: Love and Memory, from the Waking Up app: https://dynamic.wakingup.com/episode/SE85CB4?source=content%20share&share_id=0

Put another way, a major reason everyone is so exhausted is because we have been taught to always strive for better, even if we have only the vaguest