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Tastes of magic
- "There are two ways to make the world more mesmerizing: to seek out new and increasingly intense experiences, or to loosen the filters that make ordinary experience âordinaryâ. You can go skydiving, or you can meditate for long enough that walking feels like skydiving. Either way, I think what weâre seeking is an escape back into what we used to be... See more
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- This is the paradox of transformative experience: Because our imagination is bounded by our existing templates of how the world as we know it works, we fail to anticipate the greatest transformationsâthe events and encounters so unmoored from the familiar that they transfigure our map of reality and propel us into a wholly novel mode of being.
from Figuring by Maria Popova
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The more we reduce our experiencesâtranscendent, fraught, delightful, frightening, whatever they may beâto a series of stark data points and engineered touch points, the more we chase the magic out of them.
from The Business Romantic by Tim Leberecht
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- Habits are undeniably useful tools, relieving us of the need to run a complex mental operation every time weâre confronted with a new task or situation. Yet they also relieve us of the need to stay awake to the world: to attend, feel, think, and then act in a deliberate manner. (That is, from freedom rather than compulsion.) If you need to be remin... See more
from How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan
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- I used to have these elaborate theories that maybe there was something about the movement of the body and the water that magically sparked a deeper consciousness. But Iâve really come to realize the obvious thing, which is that these are simply the most unburdened spaces in my life, the moments in which I have the greatest uninterrupted intimacy wi... See more
from Maria Popova â Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age by Krista Tippett
Natalie Audelo and added
- the more experiences we have, the more chances there are that the mind may discover
from Buckminster Fullerâs Manifesto for the Genius of Generalists by The Marginalian
Keely Adler added
To experience anything at all, to grasp any one thing, to observe a particle, to hold on to the flow of an afternoon in life, is also to experience something else, and to open the imagination toward what could have been, but wasnât.
from The Rigor of Angels by William Egginton
Debbie Foster and added
- Viewed as a way to understand reality more deeply, suddenly research shifts from something intimidating to something beautiful, this process of slowly feeling the inner workings of the universe come into focus, clicking into place, a blossoming of clarity suffusing, igniting the jungle of neurons traversing my mind, until I can finally see.
from Research as Understanding â Kanjun Qiu by kanjun.me
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