In A Gentle Place
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In A Gentle Place
that an instinct can trump your intellectual interpretation of it. Or that your interiority doesn’t have to feel like a calculus proof if you’d occasionally rather it resemble my cat’s fur blowing gently in front of a heater. A little unpredictable and disorderly, but ultimately much more enjoyable to be around. I think you can just trust yourself... See more
Haley Nahman • #5: What if you just trusted yourself?
I stumble trying to find home.
Finding myself over and over, acting from the head instead of my heart.
I’ve been thinking a lot about these “gut feelings,” or the intelligence buried under our moods. They’re the instincts that don’t necessarily line up with our more intellectual frameworks, which is why following them can feel risky or chaotic (backing away from that piece, in the moment, would have felt like giving up). But when I think back to... See more
Haley Nahman • #5: What if you just trusted yourself?
First, you need to cultivate a deeper relationship with your gut. The more our world becomes measurable and quantifiable, the more we need spaces that preserve what can't be measured—the hunches we can't explain, the patterns we feel but can't prove. A jazz musician knows when to break rules in ways no theory explains. A good copywriter can feel
... See moreSimone Weil said, “Man only escapes from the laws of this world in lightning flashes. Instants when everything stands still, instants of contemplation, of pure intuition, of mental void, of acceptance of the moral void. It is through such instants that he is capable of the supernatural.” I don’t yet know about the word only, but I think there is a
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