everything is a conversation

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

“Nothing is permanent and all suffering results from our delusions of permanence.”

-Octavia Butler

Play finite games, win finite prizes

Emmett Shear • Tweet

People do not actually coordinate with each other. Rather, people are coordinated by language. If you want to improve your ability to coordinate, you must upgrade your vocabulary.

Isabel • Tweet

Any situation where you act is a possibility for active introspection.

www.henrikkarlsson.xyz • Two Kinds of Introspection

Yin is allowing energy to flow where it will, without interference.

Yang is driving energy where it otherwise wouldn’t go.

River Kenna • Yin, Yang, Mistakes, Metis

We put such pressure on ourselves to know exactly who we are and what we want in every moment; it’s okay for some things to be fuzzy. People who identify with having “so many issues” are often just people who don’t have immediate or perfect closure on the ever-evolving experience of being human.

Katherine Morgan Schafler • The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control

“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Sometimes you know a thing in your soul,

and you can’t unknow it no matter

how much trouble it makes.