everything is a conversation

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

“All life is meeting.”

-Martin Buber

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

"All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions."

-- W.B. Yeats

Jash Dholani • Tweet

writing is how you clarify your beliefs in order to make them useful to others

which in turn prompts conversations which help further clarity your thoughts and lets you be of greater & greater service

scott • Tweet

rationality is a method of dealing with uncertainty by devouring information and making simplifying assumptions about the outside world until you can convince yourself that you understand it

hinterlander • Tweet

Writing kinda feels like hunting to me in the sense u are catching something that is eluding you but you know it exists and you can see it

sigh ‎ ‎ ‎ swoon • Tweet

Consider one more possibility: that the people who seem to slow us down and hold us back are actually preventing things from happening too fast. Imagine that the evolution of your life or our culture is like a pregnancy: It needs to reach its full term. Just as a child isn’t ready to be born after five months of gestation, the New Earth we’re

Rob Brezsny • Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia

A lot of what we think of as 'letting go' is in fact just ceasing to self-regulate with whatever fantasies we were shoving between ourselves and reality, and coming into direct relationship with what has been true the whole time.

Heidi Priebe 🚢☀️🌊x.com