Clinton Weekes
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Clinton Weekes
@clintonweekes
Beauty is the output. Taste is the filter. Aliveness is the engine.
But if something makes you feel alive, you'll notice its beauty. The aliveness opens your aperture. Suddenly the light is different, the texture matters, the mundane becomes compelling.
So beauty is downstream of aliveness. It's what you perceive when you're present. But presence isn't guaranteed by beauty.
Aliveness isn't a state. It's a signal.
It's not something you achieve or maintain. It's something you notice. A kind of feedback from your nervous system that says: "This. More of this."
Not "how to feel good," but "how to feel."
The concept that sits right at the heart of a sane and meaningful life, I’m increasingly convinced, is something like aliveness. It goes by other names, too, none of which quite nail it – but it’s the one thing that, so long as you navigate by it, you’ll never go too far wrong. Sometimes it feels like a subtle electrical charge behind what’s
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