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- Point break is a force of change. It’s the clash of waves. The electrical currency of point break is the creative yearning of a wave wanting to change. To break free. It’s unconscious. It’s an act of natural law. We, too, will experience the clash of waves. Before a wave hits, there is suspense - emptiness even. A friction of what has been, and wha... See more
Nature and Soul Words
- “I don’t want anything in there,” Angelou said, when elaborating on her spartan hotel habit. “I go into the room and I feel as if all my beliefs are suspended. Nothing holds me to anything.” The home is filled with the familiar, and the familiar snares our attention, destabilizing the subtle neuronal dance required to think clearly.
from What if Remote Work Didn’t Mean Working From Home? | the New Yorker by Cal Newport
Maya Angelou would rent hotel rooms to write, asking the staff to remove all artwork from the walls and enter each day only to empty the wastebaskets. She’d arrive at six-thirty in the morning, with a Bible, a yellow pad, and a bottle of sherry. No writing desk was necessary; she’d instead work lying across the bed - I end up always going back there, dragged back there in a way, and then it’s just a matter of never, ever repeating myself.
from Dennis Cooper on Writing as Sculpture
The capacious term 'spirituality' lacks clarity because it is not so much a unitary concept as a signpost for a range of touchstones; our search for meaning, our sense of the sacred, the value of compassion, the experience of transcendence, the hunger for transformation.
from The Spiritual and the Political: Beyond Russell Brand by The RSA
- I felt that I should come home and see if there was something I could do for the people. Not for the country, not for the nation, not for the society, but for my people—that was my notion.
What’s the difference between the two things—between the country and the people—for you?
People buy my books. The country doesn’t.from The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami by Deborah Treisman
- Empathy is a “capricious and irrational emotion that appeals to our narrow prejudices”. It encourages us to take shortcuts towards familiar and accessible feelings, values, and beliefs. Of course, all of this makes sense when we take an evolutionary perspective. As Bloom observes, “we are constituted to favour our friends and family over strangers,... See more
from Burst your bubble… about empathy | WARC by Ian Murray
Against empathy - The poet and Pulitzer Prize winner Mary Oliver with some suggestions for your one precious life:
“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”from 3-2-1: On creating meaning, the remarkable odds of your existence, and life instructions by James Clear
- Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.”
You Want It Darker