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“For it is just as sinful from the standpoint of nature and of truth to be above oneself as to be below oneself.”
Absorbed in comfort, we are restless. Drowning in excess, we are hollow. The statistics confirm what our souls already know: despair has metastasized, anxiety has become our natural state, and in the absence of real suffering, we have made a spectacle of our own discontent.
Poetic Outlaws • The Comfortable Life Is Killing You
Progress has delivered everything except the will to endure it.
Poetic Outlaws • The Comfortable Life Is Killing You
A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself and to its present knowledge (and so knowable in some degree) but also separate from itself and from its present knowledge (not identical with these). In any act of thinking, the mind must reach across this space between known and... See more
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I met some of my heroes and some of them sucked; I attended events that were hollow and demented but looked fun online; I eventually realized the best parts of my life weren’t exclusive whatsoever but run-of-the-mill: a result not of being elevated above my peers (on a stage, say) but thrust among them (in the crowd). In time I came to see these... See more
Haley Nahman • #221: “The tension of staying too long”
All I know is what I have words for
"I began to notice this animal dimension in my own speaking—conscious now not only of the denotative meaning of my terms, but also of the gruff or giddy melody that steadily sounds through my phrases, and the dance enacted by my body as I speak—the open astonishment or the slumped surrender, the wary stealth or the lanky ease. Trying to articulate... See more
DAVID ABRAM, BECOMING ANIMAL: AN EARTHLY COSMOLOGY | Are.na
Anxiety, as Rollo May also pointed out, “is not being able to know the world you’re in, not being able to orient yourself in your own existence.”
Poetic Outlaws • The Comfortable Life Is Killing You
“If your world is not enchanted, you’re not paying attention.”