everything is a conversation
notes on being in constructive dialogue with reality, instead of staying mired in delusional rigidity
everything is a conversation
Play finite games, win finite prizes
Emmett Shear • Tweet
Healing is a hard-core acceptance of what is…often after a million failed attempts at trying to get it to be something else.
McCall Ericksonsubstack.com“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
-Terry Pratchett
Dostoevsky, unlike most other authors, treats his characters as full individuals, as if they are too big to fit in his head: he isn’t using them as mouth pieces but is listening to them. His books are polyphonic: they are made up of a multitude of voices, each with their own inner logic and perspective, and there is no voice that stands above the... See more
A list of books and essays that I love
as far as I can tell, everyone is given different values to live by. Different questions to live into. Different gods who live in their chest. Different combinations of natural concerns that balance out very differently.