Connection

Nowadays everybody is so scared of life and of risk and of anything that comes from it, that we've developed brittle shells around ourselves which make us rather lonely beings.

— Iain McGilchrist

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.

Compassion, as well as the way it metabolizes pain, is decidedly analog.

Oscar Wilde, on bad reply game:

"A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company."