Are you Alive?
Navigating by Aliveness, Episode 419 of Turning Towards Life
youtube.comBeauty is the output. Taste is the filter. Aliveness is the engine.
But if something makes you feel alive, you'll notice its beauty. The aliveness opens your aperture. Suddenly the light is different, the texture matters, the mundane becomes compelling.
So beauty is downstream of aliveness. It's what you perceive when you're present. But presence isn't guaranteed by beauty.
Aliveness isn't a state. It's a signal.
It's not something you achieve or maintain. It's something you notice. A kind of feedback from your nervous system that says: "This. More of this."
Not "how to feel good," but "how to feel."
We’re drowning in content.
Every platform, every scroll, every second—more inputs, more noise, mo
re things trying to hook your attention. The old metrics of intelligence—who memorized the most, who spoke the loudest, who finished the book first—don’t mean much here.
In an age where AI can generate anything, the question is no longer "can it be... See more
Every platform, every scroll, every second—more inputs, more noise, mo
re things trying to hook your attention. The old metrics of intelligence—who memorized the most, who spoke the loudest, who finished the book first—don’t mean much here.
In an age where AI can generate anything, the question is no longer "can it be... See more
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I sip this damn fine cup of coffee, that it’s not the being that matters, but the doing.
A life in constant potential.
“I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work... See more
Tina Roth Eisenberg • quotes – Page 7 – swissmiss
The concept that sits right at the heart of a sane and meaningful life, I’m increasingly convinced, is something like aliveness. It goes by other names, too, none of which quite nail it – but it’s the one thing that, so long as you navigate by it, you’ll never go too far wrong. Sometimes it feels like a subtle electrical charge behind what’s
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