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- Vulnerability in writing is a precision tool.“ If we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known,” Tim Kreider wrote in a New York Times opinion piece that has since become a wildly popular Tumblr meme.
from A Cow with a Hole in It by Jess Zimmerman
- "Taoism gave me a handle on how to look at life and how to lead it when I was an adolescent hunting for ways to make sense of the world without going off into the God business."
from Ursula K. Le Guin
cool how she looks at religion in writing
Toolkit to activate excitement:
Act on your highest excitement
Whatever options are available to you at any given moment, choose the option that contains more excitement than the other (even if the excitement is just a little bit more)
To the best of your ability
Act on it to the best of your ability, taking it as far as you can until you can take it
... See morewhat I definitely believe is that the great religions, all of them and the great mystical traditions of Buddhism and Taoism, and so on, have central truths that they hold in common, and that these are a kind of wisdom that are not appreciated, unless one is brought up in a tradition that helped one see
them. And our tradition is dead against seeing
... See morefrom Dr Iain McGilchrist: We Are Living in a Deluded World by UnHerd
- According to mimetic theory, others act as models of desire for us.
from Vita Benes
- Maybe obsessing over vulnerability is itself a way of not being vulnerable
writing from the heart is so hard because you can't tell whether you're being honest or performing for the audience
