Thought provoking
If you've been holding back from sharing your journey, insights, or creations, consider this a gentle invitation. Create for past you—celebrate your growth. Create for future you—the connections you’ll make, the person you’ll become. Create even for those silent lurkers who are quietly growing, learning, and becoming because you decided to hit publ... See more
Camille Mendoza • The Gentle Art of Being Seen: Reframing Personal Branding
Nietzsche burned early drafts. Michelangelo destroyed sketches. Leonardo left thousands of pages unfinished. The act of deletion is not a failure of recordkeeping. It is a reassertion of agency.
In design, we speak of subtraction as refinement. A sculptor chips away everything that is not the figure. A musician cuts a line that clutters the melody. ... See more
In design, we speak of subtraction as refinement. A sculptor chips away everything that is not the figure. A musician cuts a line that clutters the melody. ... See more
Joan Westenberg • I Deleted My Second Brain
aka what we refer to as ‘natural selection’, whereby reality is constantly deleting, revising, evloving, at the foaming edge of becomingness; no Hero’s journey of striving to Be The Best Self, just a love-driven exploration of what can be possible, to know ourself in every way, distilled by the pain and joy of existing; n’er static, (by definition it cannot be);
Inebriation softens the connection between the spiritual and the material; easing the weight of Being in the material, but a risky path to tread it can lead to disconnection and disillusionment;
And my (first) reply to Erik:
Erik, thanks so much and I love when inspiration sparks musing and inspiration and then those expressions ferment more inspirations... life consciousness bumping into ourself and learning more as we do so!
There's so much to chew into here, and at the same time simply: Yes.
I'm currently deep into digesting "China Root: T
... See moreEriks reply to my sharing Bayo:
Thank you, so much, Jeremy Prentice for sharing this.
It’s always fascinating to learn other peoples perspectives, and stories, and reflect on the realities we all manifest/shape around our ‘selves’.
As you eloquently mentioned, we move within life like planets generating our own gravities, within which we attract and h
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My sharing to Erik which inspired these cards and convo
I often ask myself what my cosmopoetics truly offers these times of suffering and pain, what it offers these moments of relentless movement-building, and our shared longings for a more beautiful world.
The ideas of the paragogical (that we cannot unlearn dom
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Essence description of wu-wei and excellent overview of the concept.
Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Anger, Forgiveness, and What Maturity Really Means – The Marginalian
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org