everything is a conversation
notes on being in constructive dialogue with reality, instead of staying mired in delusional rigidity
everything is a conversation
You don’t have community because you aren’t a good community member. You don’t host events, you don’t know how to cook, you don’t know how to dance, you don’t know how to sing, and you aren’t doing anything to learn. You can’t tell stories or jokes.
Scarlet Astrorum 🧭x.com“Air, water, plants, animals, and humans give themselves to each other. It's in this giving that we actually live.”
-Kodo Sawaki
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another.”
-Anaïs Nin
In a memetic war, you’re much less a soldier than you are a battleground.
Emmett Shear • Tweet
rookie mistake for smart people everywhere is to obsess over truth at the expense of memetic fitness
Richard D. Bartlett • Tweet
"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"
Your dream projects might be dreams because they’re not formed in dialog with the world, not because they’re good ideas
Sasha Chapin • Tweet
If there is such a thing as human perfection, it seems to emerge precisely from how we handle the imperfection that is everywhere, especially our own. – Richard Rohr