everything is a conversation
notes on being in constructive dialogue with reality, instead of staying mired in delusional rigidity
everything is a conversation
The more you cling to certainty, the more identity rules your life.
Brett Kistler • Tweet
starting to suspect having a good conversation and feeling connected is not primarily eye contact or asking a lot of questions or not talking about yourself or whatever, or even curiosity, but some yet more fundamental thing that drives all of it like ... joie de vivre??
i get the sense the core thing is actually quite simple, and all the indicators... See more
i get the sense the core thing is actually quite simple, and all the indicators... See more
X. It’s what’s happening
"Utopias are dreams of collective deliverance that in waking life are found to be nightmares."
- John Gray, Black Mass
- John Gray, Black Mass
Paul Millerd on Substack
A conversation’s trajectory shapes not just what is said, but what becomes possible to say, in turn.
A Philosophy of Conversation
By the time the map is available it is useless, life has changed its tracks. Life has started playing a new game. You cannot cope with life with maps because it is not measurable, and you cannot cope with life by consulting guidebooks because guidebooks are possible only if things are stagnant. Life is not stagnant—it is a dynamism, it is a
... See moreOsho • Courage
"The truth does not require your participation in order to exist. Bullshit does."
~Terence McKenna
~Terence McKenna
Jim O'Shaughnessy • Tweet
We put such pressure on ourselves to know exactly who we are and what we want in every moment; it’s okay for some things to be fuzzy. People who identify with having “so many issues” are often just people who don’t have immediate or perfect closure on the ever-evolving experience of being human.