everything is a conversation

notes on being in constructive dialogue with reality, instead of staying mired in delusional rigidity

What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.

The first step to a transformed world (or a transformed life) is a tough one: we have to give up our ideas of what the transformation looks like. To surrender our visions of preferred outcomes. Trust me, whatever actual transformation comes out of living with Reality day by day, it’s going to be much better than whatever plans your current ego has... See more

River Kenna • Destabilization & the Frequency of Values

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

— Martin Buber

Sherry Ning • Don't look too closely, love

if you're dealing with insecurity or impostor syndrome I recommend not having a life narrative. you can just do your best at whatever task and connect with whomever seems to welcome connection if you're not worried how it fits into your life story

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To be human is to be “a history-making creature who can neither repeat the past nor leave it behind,” noted W. H. Auden in a brief biographical sketch of D. H. Lawrence. In Kierkegaard’s most famous words: “Life must be lived forwards, but it can be understood only backwards.” And as Mark Twain put it in his inimitable style, “Although the past may

Ernest Kurtz • The Spirituality of Imperfection

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