everything is a conversation

your life will get easier when you accept evil is a real force in the world thats embodied in humans that exist purely to move your soul away from the pure good and eternal. pretending otherwise is a sheltered and silly idea

life is coming from you, not at you

“A person should have two therapists. A man who is stern and tells them how it is, and a woman who's gentle and always supportive. Ideally, the two therapists would be married to each other and had sex about 9 months before the person was born."

Philosophy isn't a noun to be grasped but a verb to be lived. It's not about having wisdom but about wisdom-ing - the ongoing, embodied practice of questioning, sensing, responding, and adapting to the world as it unfolds.

all things ceaselessly preach the dharma

my impression of the individuation process is that we all know, at some level, what we need to do... we sense the truths we need to face & the actions we need to take

but it’s a lot of work & suffering and so we spend years trying to negotiate our way out of it. “must I really do this? must I?”

“surely there’s a hack and a shortcut... surely there’s... See more

communication is conversion

one of the most exhausting habits, maybe even addictions, is the desire to want to be seen accurately, judged correctly, understood perfectly

there is power in letting distortion exist

when the need to be understood loosens, the energy returns to what actually wants to be made

i have a theory about God i talk about all the time

He knows He can’t reach everyone through the same methods, so He meets you in a way you can understand

if you’re naturally funny, He puts you in situations that, in hindsight, are so absurd you can’t help but laugh

if you’re analytical, He shows up as patterns. coincidences that line up too cleanly... See more