everything is a conversation
notes on being in constructive dialogue with reality, instead of staying mired in delusional rigidity
everything is a conversation
"All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions."
-- W.B. Yeats
-- W.B. Yeats
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There is a Tibetan form of spiritual hyperstition that is more powerful than any of the modern day forms.
It works by living and believing as if you have already awakened to the ultimate truth of reality.
Tibetan Buddhists mastered this technique hundreds of years ago.
In their “pure vision” practice, they spend all day everyday playing the role of an... See more
It works by living and believing as if you have already awakened to the ultimate truth of reality.
Tibetan Buddhists mastered this technique hundreds of years ago.
In their “pure vision” practice, they spend all day everyday playing the role of an... See more
Vacha • Tweet
When drawing, the trick is to spend more time looking at the thing you are trying to draw than at your picture. This is true for writing, too.
Bruce Kasanoff • Henrik Karlsson on Substack
Most “communities” these days revolve around one person who keeps giving and giving while everyone else takes. A real community is reciprocal, but what you see now is one-sided labor disguised as “leadership.”
Ana1:1 Alignment sessionsx.comrookie mistake for smart people everywhere is to obsess over truth at the expense of memetic fitness
Richard D. Bartlett • Tweet
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
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
the era of the Agenda having authority over thriving, successful individuals is over. people are starting to think for themselves again, and whenever they do so out in public (like sydney did here), swaths of people behind the scenes who have felt trapped by the Agenda cheer and feel more and more free. this will continue. and the ideologically... See more
Isabel • Tweet
No one ever begins anything, except by grace. To sin means to think that one can begin something oneself. We never start anything; we always respond.
— René Girard
— René Girard