everything is a conversation
notes on being in constructive dialogue with reality, instead of staying mired in delusional rigidity
everything is a conversation
conversations are coordination games but with social capital. if neither person is willing to risk any status loss by showing their cards, you end up in an awkward small talk deadlock that's most always worse for both parties
Kamal Sabran • Orpheas on Substack
A lot of what we think of as 'letting go' is in fact just ceasing to self-regulate with whatever fantasies we were shoving between ourselves and reality, and coming into direct relationship with what has been true the whole time.
Heidi Priebe 🚢☀️🌊x.comI think that a fairly reliable mark of high intelligence is the capacity to recognize the signal within the noise of someone's 'wrong' take.
Pseudo-intelligence gleefully pours out the bathwater, raw intelligence finds & nurtures the baby.
Pseudo-intelligence gleefully pours out the bathwater, raw intelligence finds & nurtures the baby.
Heidi Priebe • Tweet
Humans aren’t meant to excavate their inner feelings until they find their “true self.” We become ourselves in relation, not through introspection.
Laura London on Substack
“Nothing is permanent and all suffering results from our delusions of permanence.”
-Octavia Butler
I have seen the fate of those who have not lived their own lives, and it is simply horrible. People who live out their destiny and fulfill it to the best of their knowledge and abilities have no reason for regret.
— Carl Jung,
October 20, 1959
Dylan O'Sullivanx.comI think of writing a lot like walking. It’s rarely the most popular, the most effective, or the most efficient way of getting to your destination. I don’t always want to do it, and it’s not always technically enjoyable; sometimes it’s boring or slow, sometimes it’s tiring and pointless, sometimes it’s cold or wet or windy and I’m retracing the same... See more