everything is a conversation
notes on being in constructive dialogue with reality, instead of staying mired in delusional rigidity
everything is a conversation
“Boundary lines, of any type, are never found in the real world itself, but only in the imagination of the mapmakers.” -Ken Wilber
To be human is to be “a history-making creature who can neither repeat the past nor leave it behind,” noted W. H. Auden in a brief biographical sketch of D. H. Lawrence. In Kierkegaard’s most famous words: “Life must be lived forwards, but it can be understood only backwards.” And as Mark Twain put it in his inimitable style, “Although the past may
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Have faith: whatever the goal, the universe will provide lessons. Those lessons will either contain the growth to make you strong enough to accomplish the goal, or the wisdom to see a better goal.
Emmett Shear • Tweet
opportunity is around you, not above you.
talk to new people, even if you don’t know their name, truly talk to them, give them a chance to enter your life. you might be standing next to someone who will change the course of your next year, or someone who just needed one kind word to believe in themselves again.
talk to new people, even if you don’t know their name, truly talk to them, give them a chance to enter your life. you might be standing next to someone who will change the course of your next year, or someone who just needed one kind word to believe in themselves again.
binji • Tweet
“People listen better if they feel that you have understood them. They tend to think that those who understand them are intelligent and sympathetic people whose own opinions may be worth listening to. So if you want the other side to appreciate your interests, begin by demonstrating that you appreciate theirs.”
― Roger Fisher, Getting to Yes:
... See moreWhenever there is an argument between two ideas, find the third idea.
the most transformative dialogues often feature exploration rather than predetermined outcomes. We don’t know what we want, and we use conversation to get closer to articulating our desire. Some conversations are infinite, like games for their own sake.