wisdom
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wisdom
Neil Theise
It is difficult to consider this perspective without trembling with the question of what it even means to exist — and to cease existing. With his particular life-focused lens on mortality — as the child of two Holocaust survivors, as a gay man who survived the AIDS epidemic that killed many of his friends — Theise offers a redemptive answer:
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Maria Popova • Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being
Incarnation
by Sonia Sanchez
Carlo Acutis, a young Italian computer programmer who died at the age of 15 from acute promyelocytic leukemia, offered the best probe (which is an inverted question ) for our age when he said: “All people are born as originals, but many die as photocopies.”
The question becomes: given that you were born an unrepeatable person—with a unique set of
... See moreLuke Burgis • Spirit and The Cost of Cognition
Refuse to be a hologram or engage in acts of ventriloquism.
If your life feels peculiar, flamboyant, occasionally shameful, then those are the markings of that emerging authenticity. The more you settle back into your naturalness, the less likely you are to be endlessly buffeted by unease and unseated by paradox.
If your life feels peculiar, flamboyant, occasionally shameful, then those are the markings of that emerging authenticity. The more you settle back into your naturalness, the less likely you are to be endlessly buffeted by unease and unseated by paradox.
Martin Shaw • Navigating the Mysteries
Do something that won’t compute. Following this maxim may mean I will soon become obsolete, outpaced by those who calculate their utils and control their time and carefully calibrate their existence. But I’ve grown contented with that fate. I wish to live and die as I am: wholly, honestly, and messily; constantly awed by life’s imperfection;... See more
Ashley Zhang • Do Something That Won’t Compute
In a gift economy, wealth is understood as having enough to share, and the practice for dealing with abundance is to give it away. In fact, status is determined not by how much one accumulates, but by how much one gives away. The currency in a gift economy is relationship, which is expressed as gratitude, as interdependence and the ongoing cycles
... See moreRobin Wall Kimmerer • The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer
Challenging imposed narratives of doom by using anomalous phenomena and awe to reopen our sense of possibility
TRANSCRIPT
That's the same thing these magical moments, these inklings of awe, reconnections to each other, or the divine, or the everything. That's what they do.
They're like the deja vu that helps Neo recognize a glitch in the Matrix, or when Katniss shoots an arrow at the sky in Hunger Games to reveal it's just a dome.
Despite all evidence to the contrary,
... See moreLong ago, someone
told me: avoid or .
It troubles the mind
as a held-out piece of meat disturbs a dog.
Now I too am sixty
There was no other life.