aliveness
notes on what it means to feel fully alive in the present moment, and to live from that place in perpetuity
aliveness
Not to burn with a desire to behold the beloved is not to be alive.
Dean Abbott on Substack
“Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit the evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now. You are not some disinterested bystander. Participate. Exert yourself.” -Epictetus
“What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They've got their own vision, their own way of fracturing reality, and then if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings”
— David Foster Wallace
hermit the catx.commost of the demons worth slaying, they're the children of Certainty and Convenience
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“The times are urgent. Let us slow down.” —Bayo Akomolafe