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One Weird Trick
Okay, but really, short of traumatizing yourself, how can you learn to thrive in the Moat, so you can experience the glorious upside?
The true secret is that getting over it means resolving yourself to not really getting over it. Unless you are truly emotionally strange, being in the Moat will hurt somewhat. You will feel embarrassed... See more
Okay, but really, short of traumatizing yourself, how can you learn to thrive in the Moat, so you can experience the glorious upside?
The true secret is that getting over it means resolving yourself to not really getting over it. Unless you are truly emotionally strange, being in the Moat will hurt somewhat. You will feel embarrassed... See more
Learn to love the Moat of Low Status
How I litmus test my decisions:
Am I deciding to be myself and follow what I want, or am I deciding to try to manage the future?
If it’s the latter, I don’t take the action.
Joe Hudsonx.com
As poet Brandon Wint wrote in a much-quoted social media post several years ago, “Not queer like gay; queer like escaping definition. Queer like some sort of fluidity and limitlessness all at once. Queer like a freedom too strange to be conquered. Queer like the fearlessness to imagine what love can look like, and to pursue it.”
Mia Birdsong • How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
“Queer' not as being about who you're having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but 'queer' as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.”
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bell hooks
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bell hooks
A quote by bell hooks
95% of “overthinking” is unprocessed emotion wearing a rational disguise.
You don’t need more logic. You need to feel the discomfort you’re avoiding.
Joe Hudsonx.comWisdom: the ability to drop all perspectives; to go beyond whatever perspective you are currently in or holding
Love: the capacity to see the world from another’s perspective
Power: the ability to get others to see from your perspective
Daniel Thorson, on Daniel Kazandjian’s podcast. He was speaking on the three trainings at MAPLE.
holy shit. one mushroom journey did more for me in 6 hours than therapy, meditation, religion, writing, productivity hacks, deep conversations with brilliant people, having children, cold water plunges, travel to beautiful places and reading could do in 37 years. not sure what happens next. but it feels like i met myself for the first time. magic e... See more
sari azoutx.comif your sexual desire is a subset of an overall lust for life, it's much, much more likely to be perceived as attractive
if your sexual desire is disproportionate to your lust for life, it becomes a source of offputting, gollum like craving, extremely unattractive
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