Humaning
“The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life also against being opened up and transformed by the holy power that life itself comes from.”
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings the past and the future are not as real, but more real than the present.
— Alan Watts
The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us about Being Alive a book by Brian Christian
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What Does It Mean To Be Human?
exploring what it means to be human in an age of AI
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How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.
Elizabeth Lesser • Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
Somatic How-to: The Physiological Sigh
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