i am a prototype
a practice of being a work-in-progress person
i am a prototype
It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
— Real Estate by Deborah Levy
If you cycle through this feedback loop ferociously for ten years, you will end up with a well-designed life. It will not look like you imagined it would. It will have unfolded around you, and you will struggle to wrap your head around how you ended up where you did.
You will have lost track of all the experiments and insights that led you to a fit.
Henrik Karlsson Escaping Flatland
I became an archaeologist of my soul. It’s hard manual labour. It commands you to be gentle in your excavation. It asks you to investigate with curiosity and remain hopeful when it seems like all you’re digging up is more fucking dirt. There is so much power in that dirt though. Shifting it out of the way, clearing that space; eventually, it reveal
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artist Carissa Potter
if you don’t live the way you believe, you inevitably believe the way you live.
Being alive takes time.
Mark Nepo • The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have
What I’m saying is that you should be intentional with your life and have a little ambition about something, otherwise you’re just wasting your own time. Wasting anyone else’s time is incredibly disrespectful, why would you tolerate doing that to yourself?
via Jack Raines