aliveness

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

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

Joe Hudson • Tweet

The price of aliveness is letting go of distraction, avoidance, numbness, and checking out of life

Pranab • Tweet

A man does not really begin to be alive until he has lost himself. Until he has released the anxious grasp which he normally holds upon his life, his property, his reputation and position.

Alan Watts | Philosophy & Timeless Wisdom • Tweet

Alan Watts

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.

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

-river kenna

"The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves."

- Alan Watts

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

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