aliveness
notes on what it means to feel fully alive in the present moment, and to live from that place in perpetuity
aliveness
For the entirety of my young and skittish life, I had fixated upon my fear as if it were the most interesting thing about me, when actually it was the most mundane. In fact, my fear was probably the only 100 percent mundane thing about me. I had creativity within me that was original; I had a personality within me that was original; I had dreams an
... See moreElizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
shame is the aliveness killer
Love Pilgrim • Tweet
“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”... See more
A quote from The Power of Myth
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 everythin... See more
Create things that come alive
Not to burn with a desire to behold the beloved is not to be alive.
Dean Abbott on Substack
‘I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It is knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth and then simply doing it.’
⁃ Natalie Goldberg, ‘Writing Down The Bones’
Heidi Priebex.comI 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'Sullivanx.com