Whoa

the only times i truly suffer are when story comes in: a mental narrative about what happened, about myself or others, happy memories of the past, vague fears of the future. that’s easy to get stuck in, and it never fails to catch me unaware.

but sensation fades. stories linger. only one of them is real.

“I saw an opening to approach the other female actor. She was the one I was really excited to be working with. She was the one I'd watched on TV for a decade. I figured I could strike up a conversation with her in the cafeteria line, hopefully join her at the table. Tell her a little about my upcoming wedding. Maybe I'd even invite her. After all,

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“I said: what about my eyes?

He said: Keep them on the road.

I said: What about my passion?

He said: Keep it burning.

I said: What about my heart?

He said: Tell me what you hold inside it?

I said: Pain and sorrow.

He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”

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Rumi

Here are 13 things that every skilled chaos-surfer understands:

1. How something appears to you may not be how it is.


2. What is said or shown may not be all there is.


3. What is true for me may not be true for you.


4. The same words may mean different things to different people.


5. What people say may not be what they mean. Because comms is lossy and language is me

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History is the vast store of human consciousness adrift in the gulf of time, the present living in the past and the past living in the present. So when I read Shakespeare, Jefferson, Twain, or Machiavelli, I’m with them in time present. It’s why we still read Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, and Flaubert—what survives the wreck of time... See more

Once the beating was over, we were free .