aliveness

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

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”

adam ♪ • Tweet

The more defensive you are about a belief you have, the more likely that that belief is standing in the way of your freedom.

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... See more

Create things that come alive

“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

Dan • Tweet

Human beings are always, and always will be, a frontier between what is known and what is not known. The act of turning any part of the unknown into the known is simply an invitation for an equal measure of the unknown to flow in and re-establish that frontier: to reassert the far inward, as yet unknown horizon of an individual life; to make us

David Whyte • Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words

frightening how many of our wounds come from trying to be less than we are

-river kenna

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.

Θωμᾶς del Vasto (soul/acc) • Tweet

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.