Thought provoking
“Anything you give your time to and polish with attention will become a lens on your search for meaning, will lavish you with metaphors that become backdoors into the locked room of your most urgent reckonings.”
You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.
For adding to you are a fully fleshed Alchemist;
How to Remember Everything You Read
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For serious book love, and supporting my burgeoning desire for a living lab office with piles of books strewn, thinking mapping on walls and sticky notes and all readable and reachable and living… an ecosystem of personal sensual literati
Thoughts on why sharing an idea or dream or inspiro piece too soon can render it lifeless or drain the impetus, maybe collapse the possibilities too soon…
In a world drowning in information yet starving for wisdom, 𝗞𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀 connect insights across communities, events, and disciplines 🧶
In their consultation paper The Weaving Lab co-authors Nick Graham, Dr Ying-Syuan (Elaine) Huang, June Holley, Dr Blane Harvey and Mike Zeidler explore the tools, techniques, and practices of... See more
Tijn Tjoelkersubstack.comThe 17th century philosopher, Spinoza, called such deformations, ‘modes’ of the fundamental substance. From this point of view then, we can call all material particulars, including ourselves, are modes of this great living being we call the cosmos. And since it is a living system, let us think of its fabric as not merely physical but irreducibly ps... See more
The Deep Law of the Living Cosmos
Freya M on Spinoza; see esp. conatus & conativity
Narrow the aperture of your attention enough to take in any one thing fully, and it becomes a portal to everything. Anneal that attention enough so that you see whatever and whoever is before you free from expectation, unfiltered through your fantasies or needs, and it becomes love. Come to see anything or anyone this clearly — a falcon, or a mount... See more
A River, a Hare, and the Wanting Monster: Notes on Rewilding the Soul and Ensouling the World
Surrounded by a thousand thousand memories
Exploring ideas of tree memory
It seems to me we still don’t have a great idea of how our own memory works - plagued by questions like “where are memories kept?”, and do they change over time? (which it seems, yes they are changeable)
While we humans may - for want of a better word - store our memories electr
... See moreNatural Selection is no Hero’s Journey, no Deity Designing
And sadly we’ve cocooned ourselves so far from the pressures, the larger forces at ecological play we (we being the privileged few in wealthy, prevalent cultures, the 1/3rd or Global North ….) have actually de-volved as a result. Our social licence is writ large with one basic, infantile mea
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