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;

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Stuart Evans

Not Disappointing Myself

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Stuart Evans

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... See more

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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.

Jonathan Carson • A Call to Rebellion: A New Story About Depression

Stuart Evans

“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

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Joan Didion's 'Lost' Commencement Address, Revealed

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Pretty much everything in life is like this: there are some ways you can show up that just feel better. And when you show up for the truest and most beautiful version of your life that you can imagine, you feel excited and alive.

Ava • Not Disappointing Myself

Stuart Evans

What even are deadlines?

Amber Theurer amberthe.substack.com

Stuart Evans

“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”

― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

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