conversational creativity

Consider one more possibility: that the people who seem to slow us down and hold us back are actually preventing things from happening too fast. Imagine that the evolution of your life or our culture is like a pregnancy: It needs to reach its full term. Just as a child isn’t ready to be born after five months of gestation, the New Earth we’re

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I think it can be tempting as a novice to assume that everything a master produces must be refined in the high-res, high-production-value sense. I think that would be quite definitively wrong. A master has to be capable of producing quality low-res work, experimentally.

your heart knows when a story is True in some very deep way. there's some phenomena i call "slop sickness" where you get this horrible churning feeling in your stomach from reading a story that isn't resonant, when a company is stealing the soul of another. you can feel it

It’s not that I know how to do this. It’s that my soul is guiding me through this.

—life mantra

Conversation isn’t the exchange of finished ideas but the collective creation of understanding that neither party could have reached alone.

“If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.”

— Mooji

the hero's journey sometimes gets formulated as "you must go into the unknown, & bring something back"

I think there's a second, overlooked way: "you must go into the unknown - & bring others with you."

some people never 'come back' - they discover somewhere new & stay there

Ray Bradbury talks about the importance of not thinking when he is writing. He says that when he arrives at the typewriter, his task is to be living. To let his soul pour out onto the page. To quiet the mind and let his body do the talking. Then, he checks his work afterwards using the mind as a ‘corrective force’ to refine. But he uses the body to... See more