everything is a conversation

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

life is coming from you, not at you

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It's all well and good to open yourself to the world, to make yourself soft and receptive and vulnerable. But if you don't also stand up for yourself in the face of injustice, the parts of you that you exposed and left undefended will become corrupt, cowardly and full of hate.

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A conversation involves listening and talking. A conversation involves a perception of openness and access and humanity on both sides.

People hate meetings but they don’t hate conversations.

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

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my spiritual practice? oh you mean having hard conversations, stumbling & repairing, getting 1% better daily, accepting responsibility

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the ideas already exist the person who surfaces them at the right moment in the right context with a freshly curated set of words and shapes earns the glory of invention

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If there is such a thing as human perfection, it seems to emerge precisely from how we handle the imperfection that is everywhere, especially our own. – Richard Rohr

Caught in a contradiction, playing both despot and revolutionary, artist and critic, “straight man” and clown, the manifesto writer must persevere. The secret to this perseverance is drama. The theater of the absurd. You build a little self-contained world and invite the audience in. Describe this world in detail. Don’t be afraid to make it

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Julian Hanna • The Manifesto Handbook