everything is a conversation

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

you may not be able to escape audience capture, but you can at least curate your audience so that you become captured in a way that's beneficial to you

orph • Tweet

“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”

-Terry Pratchett

No one ever begins anything, except by grace. To sin means to think that one can begin something oneself. We never start anything; we always respond.

— René Girard

Jacob Sherman • Tweet

"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."

-Virginia Woolf

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

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

Will Manidis • Tweet

Growth mindset is just replying to yourself with “skill issue” every time something goes wrong

Emmett Shear • Tweet

By the time the map is available it is useless, life has changed its tracks. Life has started playing a new game. You cannot cope with life with maps because it is not measurable, and you cannot cope with life by consulting guidebooks because guidebooks are possible only if things are stagnant. Life is not stagnant—it is a dynamism, it is a

Osho • Courage