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By enabling members to access the alpha of their own interior, and providing social-psychological support for sustaining their work over time, deep community tends to generate something worthy of public attention. As soon as generating public attention becomes the focus or goal, the mechanism of deep community tends to break, like sand in its gears... See more
Justin Murphy • The Imperceptible Mechanisms of Deep Community
Use or ornament? The social impact of participation in the arts
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open.spotify.comthe loss of these small groups, in favor of nation-level organization of atomized individuals, has had serious consequences for human welfare and human agency. We are missing a layer of organization essential for our happiness.
Sarah Perry • Gardens Need Walls: On Boundaries, Ritual, and Beauty
Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World
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A5) In the future gamers creating virtual assets for their gaming characters and trading those assets with other gamers will be possible. An entire crypto-enabled community will be able to flourish around blockchain-enabled gaming. #mediachat
I say you have to learn how to be with and a part of something in order to know how to be alone. I think it is only out of a deep anchoring in community that one can ever be free to explore the solitary.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
First off you gotta learn to listen to your senses and your body — esp gut and heart rate, which can help you understand how you *actually* feel about any situation. I think a lot of people are numb, disembodied, so they find it too frictionless to talk themselves into a life they hate and out of one that fulfills them bc they can’t tell what’s act... See more
Not everyone who joined a bowling league (when people did such things) loved bowling. Many loved being with other people first and bowling came second or not at all. Being together is what mattered. The venue did not.
