Self-awareness
by Salman Ansari · updated 3d ago
Self-awareness
“If dreams are the royal road to the unconscious mind … then what are the stories that we write?”
—Stephanie Carty, The Writing Mirror
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Work on becoming more attuned to all your senses such that you can notice minute differences between things. Study all the little differences between similar things, and why you like one better than the other. The world wants you numb. Being a student of nuance is an act of rebellion.
-Kepano
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- There’s a tremendous friction that arises when you don’t allow yourself to do what you really want to do with your life. You make a lot of halfway decisions to negotiate your competing priorities: what you want, and what you want to want.
from Every’s Master Plan by Dan Shipper
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Status and the Illusion of Progress - More To That
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“status is one of our greatest poisons. Because the pursuit of it is the very antithesis of knowing yourself. Anytime you play a status game, you take on the perspective of an outsider looking in, judging who you are based on whatever metric or position you’re chasing. You give credence to the belief that you’re not enough, and that there’s something you need to achieve to finally accept who you are. But of course, any chase of this nature has no end, given that your very participation in this chase means that self-acceptance isn’t possible.”
For children only the present instant exists. For that child the present doesn’t exist for the sake of the future.
from Turning Point: 1997-2008 by Hayao Miyazaki
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