self renewal
explorations in how individuals and institutions can adapt, evolve, and renew their sense of vitality when they become stagnant.
self renewal
"For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn't understand growth, it would look like complete destruction."
—Cynthia Occelli
“Nothing is permanent and all suffering results from our delusions of permanence.”
-Octavia Butler
you cannot impose a culture from the top
it must come from under https://t.co/3xmaLolCnc
If you clear the finite games from your body, it stops keeping the score
River Kenna • Tweet
There's so little to be done except let go, follow one's nature, and unfold what needs to happen moment by moment, even in the midst of dissolution and Mystery. I am no longer talking about caterpillars.
River Kenna • Destabilization & the Frequency of Values
A lot of what we think of as 'letting go' is in fact just ceasing to self-regulate with whatever fantasies we were shoving between ourselves and reality, and coming into direct relationship with what has been true the whole time.
Heidi Priebe 🚢☀️🌊x.comHave you considered that your chronic tensions may not actually be trauma stuck in your body but a sign that you gotta stretch and flex more
Hō Shun (11/20 difficult conversations)x.com"There is a point beyond which we cannot return. That is the point that must be reached." —Franz Kafka
Henrik Karlsson • Tweet
We put such pressure on ourselves to know exactly who we are and what we want in every moment; it’s okay for some things to be fuzzy. People who identify with having “so many issues” are often just people who don’t have immediate or perfect closure on the ever-evolving experience of being human.