Dea T.
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Figuring it out. Curious, kinky, tired + inspired.
Seeking new forms.
Dea T.
If you’ve been lucky enough to have had a deep relationship with another human being, you know what pure attention and witness feel like. The poet David Whyte said that "the ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self. The ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone,
... See moreJasmine Wang 🌱 • Attending to the Other
you actually don't need everyone to understand you or what you do and you're probably working on something too safe if they all easily do. your knowing you don’t need them to understand is also exactly what makes them want to
Molly Mielketwitter.comTWELVE THESES ON ATTENTION
It explores the concept of true attention, emphasizing its importance for genuine encounters, human relationships, and personal freedom, while discussing the societal challenges and potential sanctuaries needed to cultivate it.
friendsofattention.netStart with this. Swear off unkindness; swear off disrespect. Before you open your mouth, ask yourself: “Does what I am about to say fall below the line of basic respect? Is there a chance my the listener will experience it that way?”
Bruce Springsteen • Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship (Goop Press)
And what returns home to the point of ambivalence is something foreign. By dint of the obsessive relation of repression, the repressed "proliferates in the dark" becoming fantastical, chimerical. This estrangedthing then gets to stand in for the repressed
Scholarly Article on JSTOR via MSVU Proxy
A biographer of the novelist E. M. Forster wrote, “To speak to him was to be seduced by an inverse charisma, a sense of being listened to with such intensity that you had to be your most honest, sharpest, and best self.” Imagine how good it would be to be that guy.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
