aliveness

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

“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

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

– Jean-Luc Godard

Your dream projects might be dreams because they’re not formed in dialog with the world, not because they’re good ideas

Sasha Chapin • Tweet

“You can do it like it’s a great weight on you, or you can do it like it’s part of the dance.” —Ram Dass

Amanda Fortini x.com

i cannot overstate how big the difference is between

a - learning a map, then venturing into the territory, and

b - venturing through the territory, then finding out there are maps

Rudra Dakini • Tweet

Isabel • Tweet

“It’s the greatest gig in the world, being alive. You get to eat at Denny’s, wear a hat, whatever you wanna do.” -Norm Macdonald

Gay, who had lived a good life by letting the sheriff beat him at checkers, suddenly grew cocky and never lost another game. He lost his privileges that way but he felt a whole man again.

“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 cat x.com