aliveness

notes on what it means to feel fully alive in the present moment, and to live from that place in perpetuity

by rob hardy · updated 1d ago

True style isn’t worn; it’s lived. Fashion isn’t what we wear, but the grace with which we exist
from Tweet by tater tot
rob hardy added 8d ago
“It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey.”

—Wendell Berry
from Tweet by Steve Schlafman
rob hardy added 16d ago
Wisdom lies between the words, behind the concepts. It’s older than the mind. It may be reached through the mind, like sunlight through a prism, but it doesn’t attach itself anywhere. It emerges spontaneously, right from the heart of creation. Wisdom is alive.

The 64 Ways, Richard Rudd
from Gene Key 48 – Wisdom
rob hardy added 20d ago
One of my favorite definitions of pleasure:

Simple awareness of the sensations moving throughout your body.
from Tweet by Joe Hudson
rob hardy added 1mo ago
A true mystery, like life itself, is not for us to understand with our logical mind. Puzzles can be solved, but never a true mystery. You are such a mystery. There are many systems that claim to solve the mystery that is you. They may attempt to pigeonhole us into categories and behaviours and types, but no human being can be broken down into parts... See more
from The Activation Sequence - Gene Keys
rob hardy added 1mo ago
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.” - Mary Oliver
from Tweet by Dan
rob hardy added 1mo ago
“Get busy living or get busy dying.”

- Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption.
from Tweet by Tom Morgan
rob hardy added 1mo ago
If you consider yourself a technologist, here’s your imperative: build things that are unabashedly, beautifully tangled into all else in life — people and relationships, politics, emotion and pain, understanding or the lack thereof, being alone, being together, homesickness, adventure, victory, loss. Build things that come alive, and drag everythin... See more
from Create things that come alive
rob hardy added 3mo ago
I've wondered, though, if one of the reasons we fail to acknowledge the brilliance of life is because we don't want the responsibility inherent in the acknowledgment. We don't want to be characters in a story because characters have to move and breathe and face conflict with courage. And if life isn't remarkable, then we don't have to do any of tha
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from A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life by Donald Miller
rob hardy added 4mo ago

from Tweet by tater tot

from Tweet by Steve Schlafman

from Gene Key 48 – Wisdom

from Tweet by Joe Hudson

from The Activation Sequence - Gene Keys

from Tweet by Dan

from Tweet by Tom Morgan

from Create things that come alive

from A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life by Donald Miller