life is not an intellectual endeavour.
The deepest truths are not meant to remain abstract but to be embodied: tasted, touched, taken in, and lived through our bodies.
When we try to force nature into the boxes of culture, we lose the breathing room where boredom, awe, and contemplation take place. In mystery, we don’t need to feel like everything is functional or productive. Mystery makes life feel less like a self-improvement project and more like a chance to be inspired. When we define things with premature cl... See more
nature resists culture, and culture (right now) has an obsession with quantifying/labelling things (step trackers, talking stage vs. dating, etc.).
The world is much more enchanted and mysterious when we leave it unnamed. Naming things is an act of exhaustion: it exhausts possibility and it fossilizes what should remain in motion.
To define something is, quite literally, to set its limits—to end it. To define something is to interrupt its depth.
Naming is a form of control masquerading as care or intimacy, I don’t think it actually brings us closer to the thing but it replaces the thing with a version we can handle, process, and apply. What can’t be expressed efficiently is ... See more
Naming is a form of control masquerading as care or intimacy, I don’t think it actually brings us closer to the thing but it replaces the thing with a version we can handle, process, and apply. What can’t be expressed efficiently is ... See more
To write well all you need to do is develop your mind. If you have thought deeply, nearly everything looks interesting.
The project I'm doing is basically turning myself into a certain type of person who is able to have these thoughts. The essays are kind of just exhaust from the project. The work is growing emotionally and intellectually in such a way, and just going out into the world, talking to people, reading, looking at things, and becoming the kind of mind th
... See morePhilosophy as activity, examining one's life, deliberating over what to do, that is going to prove to be somewhat necessary for a good life. But everything around philosophy, everything else around philosophy, the arguments, the book, the rags that philosophers wear, that is what can lead you astray. So it's precisely the external parts of philosop
... See moredon’t think about what a good life is, Live one.