resonance

“My words will either attract a strong mind or offend a weak one.”

- Anne Sexton

True resonance is paradise - it feels like mutual nourishment because nothing needs to be diminished. What once required disciplined inversion and measured restraint now feels expansive - because, for once, you are just being . Your soul is nourished by the ease of it - shedding layers, lovingly existing as you are. It is a cathartic remembering of... See more

Lauren • Tweet

You can’t try to resonate. Ultimately, resonance is beyond us. Like happiness, it can’t be a goal.

🏡 I Don’t Resonate With You

when two or more frequencies are vibrating in phase, coherence, nested or in harmonious mathematical ratios with each other, they are referred to as having resonance, which is really an expression of coherence.

Carly Nuday PhD • Water Codes

I like the analogy of the "bicycle for the mind", because riding a bike requires effort from you, and the bike multiplies the effect of that effort. I don't think the end goal of technology should be to let you sit around and twiddle your thumbs.

François Chollet • Tweet

Resonance is the essential process underlying all relating.

Rubin Naiman • Healing Night: The Science and Spirit of Sleeping, Dreaming, and Awakening

Resonance is being in flow state but with another person.

Shreyas Hariharan • The Goal is Resonance | Shreyas Hariharan

Resonance, as a form of action bound in (noninstrumental) relationships, must confess that there are elements of reality that are nongiven and cannot be possessed. Resonance is a form of action that centers on connection, solely for the sake of connection.

Andrew Root • Churches and the Crisis of Decline

Digital affordances seem to often constitute what Marshall McLuhan would call ‘hot media’ (1967), which require little active participation on the part of the audience, and are of highly predictable nature. Rosa would insist that to achieve resonance, we would want to cool media down to encourage active participation – a prerequisite for resonant... See more

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