Metaphors we live by 🪞
Cultivating life-affirming language
Metaphors we live by 🪞
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…
" Square peg in a round hole " is an idiomatic expression which describes the unusual individualist who could not fit into a niche of their society.
Irving Wallace • Square peg in a round hole
Squircular | Procrustean bed
Often, in a room of people eager to address and solve the world’s many crises, I am gripped by a panicky sadness. The beauty of the intention to solve these many crises is earnest. Still, the attempted actions are placed in abstracted perceptions that do not meet the rich undercurrents of the situations.
Nora Bateson • Combining
The ouroboros in its original Egyptian context symbolised repetition, renewal, and the eternal cycle of time.
you’re not writing by yourself. There is a multiplicity of beings who are co-authoring your work.
Whatever you are writing — however academic or poetic, practical or abstract — let in otherness into your creative process.
By opening our writing habits towards newness and unpredictability, we can find that there’s so much more written at the end. Ri... See more
Whatever you are writing — however academic or poetic, practical or abstract — let in otherness into your creative process.
By opening our writing habits towards newness and unpredictability, we can find that there’s so much more written at the end. Ri... See more
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • From Garden to Wild Herbal Meadow
Your writing prunes ideas in my mind. My writing prunes ideas in your mind.
We visit each other’s psychic gardens—we get nourished, healed, awakened, and mutually directed at growth.
We visit each other’s psychic gardens—we get nourished, healed, awakened, and mutually directed at growth.