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The single best advice I ever got on conversation is “ask questions the other person will enjoy answering” which sounds insultingly obvious, but almost nobody does it, and it instantly makes conversations vastly more fun.

The Sphere of Infinite Space (Jhana 5): perhaps the experiential correlate of attending not to the objects within perception, but to the gauge transformations that seamlessly stitch one frame of experience to the next. By sustaining awareness on this connective tissue (the invisible symmetries ensuring continuity)... See more

The thing you are deeply yearning to create is told to you in all the subtle ways other people's artwork slightly misses the mark