Aliveness

musings on the feeling of aliveness + what makes people feel alive and in touch with their humanity

It is your aliveness that matters. Perhaps it is the only thing that matters. If any method is not getting you closer to that fundamental expression of a aliveness that method is not really serving you regardless of how strong or old it's practices;

Bree x.com

Stuart Evans

Joan Didion's 'Lost' Commencement Address, Revealed

News news.ucr.edu

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The Constant Restlessness You Feel Has a Name

Brad Stulberg bstulberg.medium.com

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On the other side of creative aliveness, there is flatness. I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately, about what happens when our worlds go flat. The dynamism we lose, the emotional urges we suppress, the original impulses we become too afraid to nurture.

On the running path recently, a song came on. It was by Eminem. His music is not my choice for... See more

Leandra Medine Cohen • Notes from the running path

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Leandra on anti-flatness

What I really think good writing does: It enlivens that part of us that actually believes we are in this world, right now, and that being here somehow matters.

-George Saunders

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Creativity, According to Rick Rubin

Eric Skelton complex.com

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a common misconception about going deep in a subject and researching it day in and day out is that its novelty will wear off. it doesn't wear off, but your perspective on novelty changes. for a novice, novelty is newness. for an expert, novelty is nuance.

Soona x.com

Stuart Evans

tiny internets: sidewalks, geocaching, and more · tiny internets

coda.io

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