Madison Portman
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Madison Portman
“What is talkativeness? It is the result of doing away with the vital distinction between talking and keeping silent. Only some one who knows how to remain essentially silent can really talk--and act essentially. Silence is the essence of inwardness, of the inner life. Mere gossip anticipates real talk, and to express what is still in thought
... See moreLying in your diary is a disservice to yourself. Doing so will prevent you from being close to others.
“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” -Kurt Vonnegut
Perhaps we are all seeking attention without embarrassment, connection without vulnerability.
How to Manage Multiple Interests & Actually CREATE Something
youtube.comRitual prevents the ordinary from dissolving into invisibility. If you light a candle at dinner, the meal becomes an event. If you walk at the same time each day, it becomes more than exercise. Anthropologists will tell you that rituals function as technologies of attention: certain ordinary acts aren’t trivial, they’re the architecture of meaning.