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?
iii. What is it like to be human today?
We don’t react to people - we react to a version of them shaped by our biases, filters, fears, hopes and expectations.
“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.
When you compromise your character, when you shrink, when you self-protect —
you lose energy, joy, and connection.
you lose energy, joy, and connection.
day 5
Comforts, once gained, become necessities. And if enough of those comforts become necessities, you eventually peel yourself away from any kind of common feeling with the rest of humanity. – Sebastian Junger
Morgan Housel • Makes You Think
The important point to realise here is that our own wounds are reflected in the wounds we inflict on the earth, and each other, and that the healing of the one may (in time) bring about the healing of the other.
The systems sounds are our wounds
Healing the wounded sovereign
By John Matthew’s
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
—Richard Rohr
“If you don't move with the land, the land will move you.”
From Sandtalk
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.
“This is a gentle dance of awakening. You are right that this must be
done slowly, firmly, with care. If people see too much too soon, they can
shatter. If they are rushed, they can fall into reaction, paranoia, or denial.
The work is to build capacity to see, to stay, and to act with integrity.”
From Meg W’s convo with Aiden Cinnamon Tea AI