shifting perspectives
things that make you change the way you see something
by sari and · updated 14d ago
shifting perspectives
Perfection is a paradox—you can never become perfect, and you already are perfect. A perfectionist in an adaptive mindset believes both those statements are true. A perfectionist in a maladaptive mindset believes both those statements are false.
from The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schafler
rob hardy added 15d ago
- Healing is not becoming the best version of ourselves. Healing is letting the worst version of ourselves be loved.
from Tweet by Renee Solana
rob hardy added 1mo ago
- Donald Trump is an uncannily accommodating vessel for projection, good and ill. It occurs as something of a cosmic joke that his last name is “Trump,” which is the Joker in a deck of cards, a wild card, the card that can be any card. So it is that Donald Trump can be any character, whatever people hold him to be. This serves both to elevate him and... See more
from Shades of Many Colors by Charles Eisenstein
rob hardy added 1mo ago
- rationality is a method of dealing with uncertainty by devouring information and making simplifying assumptions about the outside world until you can convince yourself that you understand it
from Tweet by hinterlander
rob hardy added 2mo ago
Consider one more possibility: that the people who seem to slow us down and hold us back are actually preventing things from happening too fast. Imagine that the evolution of your life or our culture is like a pregnancy: It needs to reach its full term. Just as a child isn’t ready to be born after five months of gestation, the New Earth we’re creat
... See morefrom Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia by Rob Brezsny
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- I've found that my clients' discontents are often rooted in an unmet longing for wildness, mystery, and a meaningful engagement with the world.
- Bill Plotkinfrom Tweet by River Kenna
rob hardy added 4mo ago
- Intelligence is not central to the success of most life on Earth. Consider the grasses: they’ve flourished across incredibly diverse global environments, without planning or debating a single step. Planarian worms regrow any part of their body and are functionally immortal, a trick we can manage only in science fiction. And a microscopic virus effe... See more
from Chaos and cause by Abigail Desmond
simon added 4mo ago