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Music for Airports, at least one of the pieces on there, is structurally very, very simple. There are sung notes, sung by three women and myself. One of the notes repeats every 23 1/2 seconds. It is in fact a long loop running around a series of tubular aluminum chairs in Conny Plank’s studio. The next lowest loop repeats every 25 7/8 seconds or... See more
Brian Eno quote
Feelings aside, make a resolution to behave as a happier person would—someone who enjoys a good intimate relationship, close friendships, and their work. To follow that model, scholars recommend such habits and practices as taking an interest in others and engaging in acts of kindness, counting your blessings and savoring good moments, committing... See more
The Virtuous Circle of a Happy Personality
Dracula author Bram Stoker's lost story unearthed after 134 years
Dracula author Bram Stoker's lost story unearthed after 134 years
Here's the moment you captured from Dialectic - 18: Tom Morgan - Wisdom in the Woo. Enjoy :)
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Finding your purpose through tiny experiments, self-knowledge, and avoiding drastic life changes.
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00:46:02 - 00:46:58
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I'm reluctant to give anyone else advice in this area.
But what I would say is that... See more
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Finding your purpose through tiny experiments, self-knowledge, and avoiding drastic life changes.
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00:46:02 - 00:46:58
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I'm reluctant to give anyone else advice in this area.
But what I would say is that... See more
I remember a psychiatrist once telling me that I gamble in order to escape the reality of life, and I told him that’s why everyone does everything.
― Norm Macdonald, 2016
Plan for learning, not certainty
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Challenging imposed narratives of doom by using anomalous phenomena and awe to reopen our sense of possibility
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That's the same thing these magical moments, these inklings of awe, reconnections to each other, or the divine, or the everything. That's what they do.
They're like the deja vu that helps Neo recognize a glitch in the Matrix, or when Katniss shoots an arrow at the sky in Hunger Games to reveal it's just a dome.
Despite all evidence to the contrary,
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