aliveness

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

“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

Old paradigms die hard. Puking, sweating, convulsing every vestige of What No Longer Works into a heaping pile of shitty compost that will eventually grow something new and beautiful, but not until you’re scraped raw of every notion of what that might be.

McCall Erickson on Substack

Art keeps humans Alive

Isabel • Tweet

“To be alive at all is

to have scars."

- John Steinbeck

Poetic Outlaws • Tweet

Θωμᾶς del Vasto (soul/acc) • Tweet

elle

x.com

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.

Somewhere along the way, you realize that no one will teach you how to live your own life — not your parents or your idols, not the philosophers or the poets, not your liberal arts education or your twelve-step program, not church or therapy or Tolstoy. No matter how valuable any of that guidance, how pertinent any of that wisdom, in the end you... See more

Maria Popova • 18 Life-Learnings From 18 Years of the Marginalian

I have seen the fate of those who have not lived their own lives, and it is simply horrible. People who live out their destiny and fulfill it to the best of their knowledge and abilities have no reason for regret. — Carl Jung, October 20, 1959

Dylan O'Sullivan x.com