You completely broke my model of what it’s possible for a person to do—it’s one thing to read accounts of the powers of mystics, it’s another to have one directly operate on your consciousness.
Saved by Björn and
You completely broke my model of what it’s possible for a person to do—it’s one thing to read accounts of the powers of mystics, it’s another to have one directly operate on your consciousness.
The only way we can change our lives is to change our energy — to change the electromagnetic field we are constantly broadcasting. In other words, to change our state of being, we have to change how we think and how we feel.
Joe Dispenza • Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon
It’s one thing to predict how technology changes, but quite another to predict how it changes us.
I admire so much that despite your insane life circumstances, you remain chill and humble and curious, many of the wealthy and powerful people I’ve met are just fucking weird in a way that you’re not even a little bit.
Sasha Chapin • An open letter to 56 people I know
When designing a character, it’s often useful to think of them in terms of their theory of control. How have they learned to control the world? When unexpected change strikes, what’s their automatic go-to tactic for wrestling with the chaos? What’s their default, flawed response? The answer, as we’ve just seen, comes from that character’s core beli
... See moreWill Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human, and How to Tell Them Better
All of this research shows that we are the great masterworks of our own storytelling minds—figments of our own imaginations. We think of ourselves as very stable and real. But our memories constrain our self-creation less than we think, and they are constantly being distorted by our hopes and dreams. Until the day we die, we are living the story of
... See moreJonathan Gottschall • The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
“Transform yourself to transform the world.”