Metaphors we live by 🪞
Cultivating life-affirming language
Metaphors we live by 🪞
The ouroboros in its original Egyptian context symbolised repetition, renewal, and the eternal cycle of time.
Headwater is a portal
Every river has a headwater, a watering hole somewhere high up.
A place where a water stream emerges onto the surface of the Earth.
Many ancient cultures have seen these places as sacred, places of healing and vision.
Where is your Headwater ?
Your own river collects itself like an underground cloud and starts dripping upwards, ... See more
Every river has a headwater, a watering hole somewhere high up.
A place where a water stream emerges onto the surface of the Earth.
Many ancient cultures have seen these places as sacred, places of healing and vision.
Where is your Headwater ?
Your own river collects itself like an underground cloud and starts dripping upwards, ... See more
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Headwaters: 6-Week Course on Writing and Regenerating Your Creative Prowess
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
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)
“Slow down and tune into our seismographs.” The invitation is to practice “sensing to the depths” by finding one’s own inner still point, dropping through the layers of white noise, or using a finely-tuned instrument to hear the subtle signals.
What do we sense from our different perspectives? What do we “hear” and what are the different qualities o... See more
What do we sense from our different perspectives? What do we “hear” and what are the different qualities o... See more
Nancy Zamierowski • Slow down and tune into our seismographs
" 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
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.
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • From Garden to Wild Herbal Meadow
Intermezzo: To move in spaces where worlds shift
open.spotify.comthis 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…
