everything is a conversation
notes on being in constructive dialogue with reality, instead of staying mired in delusional rigidity
everything is a 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"
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
"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."
-Virginia Woolf
conversations are coordination games but with social capital. if neither person is willing to risk any status loss by showing their cards, you end up in an awkward small talk deadlock that's most always worse for both parties
Kamal Sabran • Orpheas on Substack
Anxiety is the universe telling you it's time to do something, to create something, anything
Dylan O'Sullivan • Tweet
