Seeds of Stasis
Stasis is usually described with a negative connotation, but I am seeking it out after an intense period of burnout. I want to know its shape, its limits and its hues.
Seeds of Stasis
Stability, if stagnant, cannot last.
nothing we know is in reality ever entirely static; and relative stasis, not motion, is the unusual circumstance that requires explanation. Stasis is, in other words, the limit case of motion, in which it approaches, but never completely reaches, zero. Motion, then, is not an unusual departure from stasis, but stasis an unachievable imaginary
... See moreIain McGilchrist • The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World
repose does not consist in condemning all motion as merely vexation;
Seneca • Letters From A Stoic: Epistulae Morales AD Lucilium (Illustrated. Newly revised text. Includes Image Gallery + Audio): All Three Volumes
Staying with something is to change and deepen whatever we are staying with; staying itself is a journey that always leads to altering our further departures. Sojourn takes its definition by being a stay between journeys that is also a journey in itself.
David Whyte • Sojourn
The human body employs hundreds of feedback loops to keep your blood pressure, body temperature, glucose levels, calcium levels, and many other processes at a stable equilibrium.
James Clear • The Paradox of Behavior Change
For me, harmonizing with the trouble is not to find perfect synchronicity or balance, but to move and be moved into a trans-contextual dance of aliveness . It is to become sensually intimate with the push and pull, the tension and release, the agony of death and the joy of living that exists in each moment – with each in-breath and out-breath. As... See more
Cheryl Hsu • Harmonizing the Body Electric
16/11/25
Estar en estasis, corriendo este maratón. Me quiero recuperar de este atropello. Quiero estar en silencio conmigo sin sentir vergüenza, hasta a solas me superviso. Todo lo que corro, oculto, entierro para poder descansar de las miradas que viven en mi interior. Ahora soy mi propio padre. Parpadea, uno, dos. ¿Estás en estasis papá? ¿Puedo
... See moreI’ve found myself wanting to get out of the liminal place I’ve been floating in — wanting it to be done already, wanting to arrive in clarity, wanting to feel more certain or sure about what I’m supposed to be doing and how I should be doing it. Part of me feels like this pressure to “get there” comes from the false belief that there is anywhere... See more