Marne Mans
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Marne Mans
The quality of your life depends quite a bit on the quality of attention you project out onto the world.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Think like a gardener, not an architect: design beginnings, not endings.
Unfinished = fertile
don’t know how else to explain it except to say that when I make time to read, my capacity to deal with my own life — and my own bullshit — expands . My natural tendency to be tightly wound loosens its grip.
Reading as a default state
the homies mixing R&B and burning grilled cheese
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Notes on compulsive Tethers and jealousy (different but related) 🪞⛓️💥🪞 Major point of discussion this year. Beyond the intellectual awareness of why clocking this and shifting it is so important is the very clear underlying alchemical and energetic results. Entire bodily and reality shifts occur when you reject the impulse to fling yourself under... See more
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Wanting is the ugliest thing you can do. It keeps your experience in a state of “not having.” It keeps good things at a distance.
Brianna Wiest • 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
However long we postpone it, we eventually lie down alone in that notoriously un- comfortable bed, the one we make ourselves. Whether or not we sleep in it depends, of course, on whether or not we respect ourselves.
Joan Didion • On Self-Respect: Joan Didion’s 1961 Essay From the Pages of Vogue
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