Aliveness
musings on the feeling of aliveness + what makes people feel alive and in touch with their humanity
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Aliveness
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
Sophia Loren // "Isn't it wonderful to be alive? You know, you can forget all about it. Then suddenly you remember, and think of all the things you can do. Here I am. I can walk around. I can talk. I can see things and remember things. I am alive. How wonderful."
Sophia Loren • NITCH
You can’t optimize your way toward feeling alive. Efficiency is a tool to enable life; it is not a life.
Geoff Lewistwitter.comFrom 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