everything is a conversation
notes on being in constructive dialogue with reality, instead of staying mired in delusional rigidity
everything is a conversation
“The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other” - Francis Weller
Frannyfanny • Tweet
"Remember to imagine and craft the worlds you cannot live without, just as you dismantle the ones you cannot live within."
Ruha Benjamin
Allowing and encouraging a quality of play and experimentation in practice is vital, and vitalizing. I can’t emphasize this enough. Usually that’s how we learn best as human beings, and it keeps things from getting rigid and feeling heavy.
Rob Burbea • Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising
“A conversation has a spirit of its own,” Gadamer writes, “and the language in which it is conducted bears its own truth within it.” This insight directly challenges information-transfer models of communication. Language isn’t just a vehicle for pre-formed thoughts; it’s the medium through which thinking itself happens. Or as Soleio writes,... See more
A Philosophy of Conversation
"Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am."
—Parker Palmer, from "Let Your Life Speak"
The more you cling to certainty, the more identity rules your life.
Brett Kistler • Tweet
Resonance is feeling understood. It is improvization, banter, a jamming session. You’re playing music with others and they are building on it.