committed seriousness creates its own gravity
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committed seriousness creates its own gravity
When I say serious I
don’t
mean solemn and tedious.
I mean something closer to ‘dynamic persistence’, and a sense of humor is often critical to that. It’s hard to persist for a long time if you ‘take yourself too seriously’. You become rigid, stiff, the opposite of dynamic, and eventually you bang up against something that breaks you one way or... See more
don’t
mean solemn and tedious.
I mean something closer to ‘dynamic persistence’, and a sense of humor is often critical to that. It’s hard to persist for a long time if you ‘take yourself too seriously’. You become rigid, stiff, the opposite of dynamic, and eventually you bang up against something that breaks you one way or... See more
visakan veerasamy • Are You Serious?
All things lead back to seriousness and sincerity. Sincerity, not in a moral sense. But in the sense of a true and genuine and pure desire to reach one’s goal. S: Most humans simply are not this way. M: Most humans like to play games. They are window-shoppers, band-wagon-jumpers, and fad-followers. Such is the effect of societal conditioning.
Kapil Gupta • There Is No HOW
I want to throw out the crippling assumptions that keep many from being a voice in the world. I want to start over, with an imagination adequate to the possibilities and the strangeness and the dangers on this earth in this moment.