you should read the word “I” as a name for a sort of collective of people that meets up in me. I try to keep that in mind all the time.
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you should read the word “I” as a name for a sort of collective of people that meets up in me. I try to keep that in mind all the time.
But insofar as I understand it, it’s just as you say—we can only know the world through our own consciousness, our own I. But we also know that everyone else has, everyone is their own I. In a way, there is only one I. It’s a thought that I’ve been turning around in my mind for many years, and every now and then, it strikes me anew. And I see it as... See more
Many manifestos—and humans, for that matter—end up consumed by one or the other as they grasp at certainty and control.
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This constant march into the unknown would not exist without the simultaneous sharing of millions of divergent points of view. Expressing oneself in the world and creativity are the same. It may not be possible to know who you are without somehow expressing it.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
well-arranged words rearrange reality.
Visakan Veerasamy • Tweet
When we say ‘I’, we mean the story in our head, not the onrushing stream of experiences we undergo. We identify with the inner system that takes the crazy chaos of life and spins out of it seemingly logical and consistent yarns. It doesn’t matter that the plot is full of lies and lacunas, and is rewritten again and again, so that today’s story flat
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Everyone is an artist. Everyone is involved, whether they like it or not, in the construction of their world. Consciousness is always consciousness of something. There is no fixed world out there, the world is coming toward you and you are coming toward it. And between the two of you, you actually construct the world. It’s never as given as it actu
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