the in between
It’s confusing to be alive and be A Thing moving through the world. You are always different things to different people.
It’s easy to define ourselves by the empty spaces, the ways in which we lack. And yet those are not always gaps within us waiting to be filled, rather, the simple contrast between all we are and all we were never meant to be.
Brianna Wiest • When You're Ready, This Is How You Heal
we often get caught in the illusion that arriving at a predetermined destination will end the mental agitation of feeling in-between.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche • In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying
Once you have perspective, you can decide which way to go. Though sometimes you have to move in order to know where you are. And sometimes when you move, it will seem that the landscape is moving too.
(Break.up by Joanna Walsh)
Between stimulus and response there is space. In that space we have the power to choose. In that choice is our growth and transformation.
(Victor Frankl)
“I don’t think we talk enough about the in betweens. The part when you know you want to change something but don’t yet know how, don’t yet feel strong enough, don’t yet know what your first step is. So to the people in the in betweens, don’t be disheartened, don’t give up. You’ve done the hard part. Now just take it one small step at a time.
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what matters resides in relationships rather than things – between us, rather than within us.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
The “idea” isn’t a finished product with identifiable boundaries that one moment sprung into being—one of the reasons artists so hate the interview question, “So what was your inspiration for this?” Any idea is actually an unstable, shifting intersection between myself and whatever I was encountering. By extension, thought doesn’t occur somehow ins
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The in between is where it happens.
Alex Dobrenko • The secret place AI can't see
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