everything is a conversation
notes on being in constructive dialogue with reality, instead of staying mired in delusional rigidity
everything is a conversation
as far as I can tell, everyone is given different values to live by. Different questions to live into. Different gods who live in their chest. Different combinations of natural concerns that balance out very differently.
River Kenna • Destabilization & the Frequency of Values
"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."
-Virginia Woolf
Have you considered that your chronic tensions may not actually be trauma stuck in your body but a sign that you gotta stretch and flex more
Hō Shun (11/20 difficult conversations)x.comchoice a) tends to be taken by people who want to go faster or be more efficient or get a predictable outcome... and often blocks their ability to see what they actually need to do what they need to do in the territory. "A map is a claim about what can be ignored," ...and if you study the map first, you're likely ignore/not notice the things that... See more
Rudra Dakini • Tweet
part 2 of river kenna’s spiel on maps vs territory
An interesting observation in Maslow's work on self-actualized people is that they tend to be less "introspective" than others. Meaning they spend less time thinking about themselves and their feelings. But they are more attuned to their inner compass when *acting on the world*.
Henrik Karlsson • Tweet
Universities claim to promote social mobility but inadvertently perpetuate social hierarchies, whereas the military is an explicit hierarchy that inadvertently promotes social mobility.