Metaphors we live by 🪞
Cultivating life-affirming language
Metaphors we live by 🪞
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase “each other”
doesn’t make any sense.
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go b... See more
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase “each other”
doesn’t make any sense.
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go b... See more
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Rumi
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God is a metaphor for a mystery that absolutely transcends all human categories of thought, even the categories of being and non-being.
Joseph Campbell
as Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee shares in Emergence Magazine, “We cannot change the world through a mental construct. We cannot change the world through words alone”
Emma Proud • Getting off the ‘time highway’: reconnecting with the rest-of-nature through the wheel of the year
The world is a prism, not a window. Wherever we look, we find new refractions.
Maria Popova • The New Science of Plant Intelligence and the Mystery of What Makes a Mind
Oasis
River
Islands of Peace
Eye of the Storm
Sun (Open Love) & Clouds (Closed Wounds)
Membrane
Sleeping volcano
Sunburst
Pollination
Pioneering species
Magnet
Mycelium
Surfing
Ripcurrent
Compass
Unboxing reality
Squircular
Soil (conditions)
Random notes from Wake Up 2024:
The mirror of reality: The state of the world is a reflection of our inner state. Our inner state is a reflection of the state of the world.
Back to the ‘real’ world?
Wu Wei: The Moment I Stop Caring, I start Flowing
Questions: beware of creating duality. There are no opposites, only polarities
Negativity Bias: From Survi
this isn't how I planned for my life to look like," I whispered under my breath as I walked to my car "tell me about it," an eavesdropping cloud replied to me from above I looked up and watched the cloud billow between looking like a dove and an open hand the cloud…