What the world needs is you
pulling out the throughline between my personal work and Zen practice
What the world needs is you
Nobody ever talks about how the concept of the Individual must be so integral to what the universe is trying to accomplish that it's willing to lose the memory of itself, and possibly the integrity of its entire structure, in order to do so. That's how valuable you are.
Autumn Christianx.comStart with the Faulkner quote “The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself” and you can figure it out from there
a knight who remembered his meowsx.comThe ultimate question of human history, as we’ll see, is not our equal access to material resources (land, calories, means of production), much though these things are obviously important, but our equal capacity to contribute to decisions about how to live together.
David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
I think psychologically real stakes don’t come from property, equity, or any other legible capital type. They arise from feeling reasonably necessary in the live story of the world.