everything is a conversation
notes on being in constructive dialogue with reality, instead of staying mired in delusional rigidity
everything is a conversation
Somewhere along the way, you realize that no one will teach you how to live your own life — not your parents or your idols, not the philosophers or the poets, not your liberal arts education or your twelve-step program, not church or therapy or Tolstoy. No matter how valuable any of that guidance, how pertinent any of that wisdom, in the end you... See more
Maria Popova • 18 Life-Learnings From 18 Years of the Marginalian
frightening how many of our wounds come from trying to be less than we are
-river kenna
communication is conversion
Andrew McLuhan • Tweet
The monomyth appeals to us because the hero is Special and has a Cosmic Mission that gives him/her unquestionable definite purpose. We have difficult choices about life-paths, which people in the archaic times of myth simply didn't. They had to play the random hand dealt to them. https://t.co/mTuzfneWkq
