aliveness
notes on what it means to feel fully alive in the present moment, and to live from that place in perpetuity
aliveness
shame is the aliveness killer
Love Pilgrim • Tweet
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“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
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“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
—Wendell Berry
Steve Schlafman • Tweet
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You see, I want a lot.
Maybe I want it all:
the darkness of each endless fall,
the shimmering light of each ascent.
So many are alive who don't seem to care.
Casual, easy, they move in the world
as though untouched.
But you take pleasure in the faces
of those who know they thirst.
You cherish those
who grip you for survival.
You are not dead yet, it's not too
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"There is a point beyond which we cannot return. That is the point that must be reached." —Franz Kafka
Henrik Karlsson • Tweet
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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 Activation Sequence - Gene Keys
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I love the quote from author Kent Nerburn that, “Debt defines your future, and when your future is defined, hope begins to die.
Collab Fund • How I Think About Debt
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“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
- Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption.
- Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption.
Tom Morgan • Tweet
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