everything is a conversation
notes on being in constructive dialogue with reality, instead of staying mired in delusional rigidity
everything is a conversation
Astronaut Scott Kelly on intelligence:
“The smartest person in the room, I’ve learned, is usually the person who knows how to tap into the intelligence of every person in the room.”
i cannot overstate how big the difference is between
a - learning a map, then venturing into the territory, and
b - venturing through the territory, then finding out there are maps
a - learning a map, then venturing into the territory, and
b - venturing through the territory, then finding out there are maps
Rudra Dakini • Tweet
Most people live their lives in between these 2 emotions-
1. Hope that if they achieve something, they will find happiness.
2. Fear that if they lose what they have, they will never be happy.
The day you understand neither of them are actually true is the day you are free.
1. Hope that if they achieve something, they will find happiness.
2. Fear that if they lose what they have, they will never be happy.
The day you understand neither of them are actually true is the day you are free.
Joe Hudson • Tweet
“The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other” - Francis Weller
Frannyfanny • Tweet
man's capacity for good makes markets possible; man's propensity for evil makes markets necessary.
nihilism disrespecterx.com“A person should have two therapists. A man who is stern and tells them how it is, and a woman who's gentle and always supportive. Ideally, the two therapists would be married to each other and had sex about 9 months before the person was born."
Drunk Wisconsin (@drunkwisconsin)
True resonance is paradise - it feels like mutual nourishment because nothing needs to be diminished. What once required disciplined inversion and measured restraint now feels expansive - because, for once, you are just being . Your soul is nourished by the ease of it - shedding layers, lovingly existing as you are. It is a cathartic remembering of... See more
Lauren • 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