Aliveness
musings on the feeling of aliveness + what makes people feel alive and in touch with their humanity
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Aliveness
“No, we don’t need more sleep. It’s our souls that are tired, not our bodies. We need nature. We need magic. We need adventure. We need freedom. We need truth. We need stillness. We don’t need more sleep, we need to wake up and live.”
– Brooke Hampton
Confession: I’m being extremely selfish here
I’ve found that my deepest and most nourishing friendships are with people who are in touch with their feelings and bodies, who can feel their Calling, and who can sense that Life and Value matter
My entire Twitter presence is aimed at finding more people like that, and as much as possible, seducing mo... See more
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
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
Leandra on anti-flatness
"There are two ways to make the world more mesmerizing: to seek out new and increasingly intense experiences, or to loosen the filters that make ordinary experience “ordinary”. You can go skydiving, or you can meditate for long enough that walking feels like skydiving. Either way, I think what we’re seeking is an escape back into what we used to be... See more
- Kasra
From The Unbearable Lightness of Being:
“The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But … the heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes a man to be lighter than air, to soar into the heights, take ... See more
Like the tiger, we dream of the savannah, the rainforest and the mangrove swamp. We want to hunt and fuck and bask in the sun. We want to climb trees and drink from freshwater streams. We want to pursue our true calling and live to our full potential. I believe this desire is in every one of us. And when it’s suppressed long enough, we rebel. Somet
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