Aliveness
musings on the feeling of aliveness + what makes people feel alive and in touch with their humanity
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Aliveness
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
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
You are alive.....so be ALIVE. Love recklessly, dream wildly, speak truthfully. Do not wait for the perfect moment; create it. Do not wait for life to give you meaning; carve it into the universe with your passion. https://t.co/jxkx4u5KJB
