life is not an intellectual endeavour.

Most of our problems can be boiled down to one cause: the loss of soul.

No, I won’t define the soul because defining it is part of the problem. Definitions are an intellectual enterprise, and the soul is something beyond that entirely.

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

To write well all you need to do is develop your mind. If you have thought deeply, nearly everything looks interesting.