iii. What is it like to be human today?

What has intense convenience and abundance done to us? Our sense of self? Of belonging and identity?

All things cry for forgiveness in their imperfection, their incompleteness, their woundedness, their constant movement toward death. Mere rage or resentment will not change any of these realities.

—Richard Rohr

The art of settling

From settling for in life to settling in.

Lögom as example

We don’t react to people - we react to a version of them shaped by our biases, filters, fears, hopes and expectations.

The bogeyman

The gremlin in the closet. The more I ignored it the more perilous it felt. The more threatening and dark and heavy and dangerous

In turning towards it was like the bogeyman in the closet. The terror was created by me. In looking I saw there was actually something curious and useful and fun to play with.

When you compromise your character, when you shrink, when you self-protect —

you lose energy, joy, and connection.

day 5

Most people think they are their thinking. In contemplation, we move beneath thoughts and sensations to the level of pure being and naked awareness.

—Richard Rohr

both the left and the right claim that if the other gains power it means the end of things as we know it.

What if both are right? What if each is one half of the cayalyst bring the end of modernity, because both are so captured by modernity’s core promise and assumptions?

“Your calendar is the most honest autobiography you'll ever write.

It doesn't matter what you say your priorities are; your calendar reveals the truth. Each block is a decision about what matters, stripped of pretense and rationalization.

Your calendar isn't just recording your time—it's exposing your lies.”

Farnam Street - Shane Parrish

Uncover the truth, don’t trust what you think and say, look for the artifacts of your actions, of how you spent your time.

Periods of seemingly fruitless darkness may in fact highlight all the ways we rob ourselves of wisdom by clinging to the light. Who grows by only looking on the bright side of things?

—Richard Rohr