aliveness

shame is the aliveness killer

“Let us expand, live much, and be many things, and

not shirk the complexity of the world or of ourselves.”

— Julian Jaynes

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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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

“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

“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

"When death finds you, may it find you alive."

-African proverb

“To be alive at all is

to have scars."

- John Steinbeck

One of my favorite definitions of pleasure:

Simple awareness of the sensations moving throughout your body.