everything is a conversation

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

a successful malignant ideology will promise to make your life better while actually sabotaging it and making it worse in ways that seem to prove the ideology correct. the more you follow it, the worse everything gets, while you become more and more devoted to it. demonic even.

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"All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions."

-- W.B. Yeats

The fastest way to attract what’s meant for you is to express yourself so honestly that everything misaligned falls away on its own.

Rumi x.com

The good thing about conversations is that you realize how little you know.

The worst thing about conversations is that you realize how little you know.

Camilo Moreno-Salamanca on Substack

Never trust an influencer without a decent reply game

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“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

The technique of merging rests upon the rock of gentleness. When we are gentle towards others, it does not mean that we allow them to walk all over us. It simply means that when we decide to take a stand in anything, we do so with respect towards others. By adding a soft touch to our daily doings, we create curves where there are hard edges and we

Richard Rudd • The Art of Contemplation: Gentle path to wholeness and prosperity

“Air, water, plants, animals, and humans give themselves to each other. It's in this giving that we actually live.”

-Kodo Sawaki