everything is a conversation

All of life is a conversation with God

Magic is real but it’s like 99% listening

If you relate to power as something to be opposed and fought, you have surrendered your own.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.

― James Baldwin

People do not actually coordinate with each other. Rather, people are coordinated by language. If you want to improve your ability to coordinate, you must upgrade your vocabulary.

“A life that looks good is not the same thing as a life that feels good”

rationality is a method of dealing with uncertainty by devouring information and making simplifying assumptions about the outside world until you can convince yourself that you understand it