free falling
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free falling
At the base of almost everything, the resulting truth is this: we don’t know. When we disregard this unknowingness, we can easily become disinterested, uninspired, and worn out of this life. We can put great stress on things that perhaps don’t matter all that much and neglect experiences and things that do. We can feel the pressure and anxiety of
... See moreRobert Pantano • The Art of Living a Meaningless Existence: Ideas from Philosophy That Change the Way You Think
Had I wanted so desperately to be special, to have a purpose, to recover from the shame of not being able to keep pace with the corporate world that I had somehow fabricated the entire thing? And how would I ever be able to tell for sure? If we are all just hallucinating this reality around us, how could we ever really know what is true and real
... See moreGia Prism • Messages From The Stars: How the 20th Century’s Greatest Creatives and Visionaries Lived Their Art, and What They Have to Teach Us From Beyond the Veil
We live in a mysterious world full of uncertainties. And we regularly make assumptions to explain them. Coming to terms with the complexity of our human experience allows us to exit our natural state of confusion. To survive.
– Rick Rubin, The Creative Act