Connection
by Jennifer Baez and · updated 2mo ago
Connection
Like Robinson Crusoe, we are finding footprints on the sandy shore of what had sometimes seemed a lonely, desert island; and, like hon, we are increasingly eager to meet our brother. Indeed, our century is a dangerous one to be alive in, but it is an expectant one as well. Shall we "search and destroy," or shall we engage in dialogue?
from Notes On Dialogue by readwise.io
rob hardy added 2mo ago
Such philosophies emphasize that we humans dwell within, not apart from, the network of felt relations, human and ecological, that shape our lives; and that we have possibilities for living creatively and compassionately amid these relations
from Ecological Civilization
Jennifer Baez added 1y ago
- Compassion, as well as the way it metabolizes pain, is decidedly analog.
from Covid Speaks like ChatGPT
Mary Martin added 9mo ago
- Oscar Wilde, on bad reply game:
"A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company."from Tweet by Visakan Veerasamy
rob hardy added 4mo ago
- Engaging in group activities that generate synchronicity – such as rituals, dancing or singing in choirs – alter the sense of self and increase connection with others.
from What the science of happiness says about the self and others | Aeon Essays
Mary Martin added 5mo ago
- Not only are we failing to consider other species, we are flailing in our connection with one another.
from ‘Playing animal’ reflects back our yearnings and repulsions | Aeon Essays by Erica Berry
Mary Martin added 8mo ago
- Every conversation has multiple layers. Some people hide behind masks. Others lie to others (and themselves). And others say one thing with their mouth and another with their body. It only takes seeing through one of these layers for somebody to call you a genius.
from Tweet by David Perell
rob hardy added 4mo ago
- “People think that intimacy is about sex. Intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you can stand in front of them bare and their response is ‘you’re safe with me’- that’s intimacy” Adi Shakti
from Tweet by andreaelenaa_
rob hardy added 1y ago