everything is a conversation
notes on being in constructive dialogue with reality, instead of staying mired in delusional rigidity
everything is a conversation
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.
People hate meetings but they don’t hate conversations.
seths.blog • The Conversation
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another.”
-Anaïs Nin
“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.
one of the hardest habits i've had to un-learn as a writer is the desire to head off any counterargument i can see coming -- it's hard for me to write something knowing it will be misunderstood by some people, but that preventing it will water down the writing
"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."
-Virginia Woolf
choosing a side only feels good because it allows the mind to re-right itself into certainty while suppressing the fear of not knowing.
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One of the most reliable ways to feel more connected to life is to continually notice how much of experience is happening outside of your control
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