self renewal
explorations in how individuals and institutions can adapt, evolve, and renew their sense of vitality when they become stagnant.
self renewal
my impression of the individuation process is that we all know, at some level, what we need to do... we sense the truths we need to face & the actions we need to take
but it’s a lot of work & suffering and so we spend years trying to negotiate our way out of it. “must I really do this? must I?”
“surely there’s a hack and a shortcut... surely there’s... See more
but it’s a lot of work & suffering and so we spend years trying to negotiate our way out of it. “must I really do this? must I?”
“surely there’s a hack and a shortcut... surely there’s... See more
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When you stop reading, you stop writing.
When you stop writing, you stop thinking.
When you stop thinking, you stop feeling.
When you stop feeling, you stop believing.
When you stop believing, you stop building.
When you stop building, you stop bettering.
When you stop bettering, you stop caring.
When you stop caring, you stop living.
When you stop writing, you stop thinking.
When you stop thinking, you stop feeling.
When you stop feeling, you stop believing.
When you stop believing, you stop building.
When you stop building, you stop bettering.
When you stop bettering, you stop caring.
When you stop caring, you stop living.
Tom White • When You Stop Living
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another.”
-Anaïs Nin
God makes you walk in circles until you’re exhausted enough to just be yourself
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Woodworking is brutal. It's painfully slow to learn and very unforgiving. But the sheer act of jumping blindly into a new creative field as a novice really opened up my eyes. You'd be surprised how quickly designing a simple bench will lead you into existential questions about the nature of "sitting."
No More Boring Apps | !Boring Software
At a certain point we’re gonna have to build up some machinery, inside our guts, to help us deal with this. Because the technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it’s gonna get easier and easier and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable, to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by by people
... See more“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
-Terry Pratchett