shifting perspectives
things that make you change the way you see something
by sari and · updated 1d ago
shifting perspectives
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The information in your news feeds is curated for interest or surprise. As such, the news is not a record of the ordinary but the extraordinary—a reflection not of reality but of precisely that which is uncharacteristic of reality.
-Gurwinder
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alex added 12d ago
While Kaczynski wanted to demolish industrial society and return humanity to an agrarian life, US defense secretary Robert McNamara wanted the opposite: to use American industrial might to crush the agrarian society of Vietnam.
McNamara was a statistician who believed what couldn’t be measured didn’t matter. He charted progress in the Vietnam war by
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simon added 18d ago
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phoebe added 18d ago
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“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
— Cormac McCarthy
phoebe added 23d ago
Your spiritual practice is solid when, over time, your experience opens up more and more dimensions and nuances and you're generally gaining clarity, like an aperture that's ever widening. Things just appear more as what they are, and you're exploring new ways of (un)seeing.
Stuart Evans added 2mo ago
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Only dead fish go with the flow.
-David Ogilvy
sari added 2mo ago