Michelle Pellizzon
@mpl
Michelle Pellizzon
Why did humans evolve with religion, with the capacity to experience spiritual ecstasy, to deeply feel that there is this Whole? Because it was rewarded, it worked and continued. Why? Because of the Actuality. We need to grasp and grapple with our environment — its strange ways and our lack of ultimate control.
Sonya Mann • What is God?
One of my heuristics for growth is to seek out the magicians, and find the magic. Often without noticing, your progress in aspects of life or all of it unconsciously becomes linear. You made a certain amount of money last year, so you aim to make some ‘reasonable’ proportion more this year. But you are largely using the same tools to get 2x as you... See more
Autotranslucence • Becoming a Magician
Novelist and mystic Romaine Rolland says, “There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.”
Tara Brach • Radical Acceptance
If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.
Richard Rohr
björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
For humans to have been shaped long ago to treat the sacred in its appropriate sacred manner, the sacred must have been around long ago, and important enough then to shape our natures. That is, if the sacred is real, it must be big and ancient.
Truly Sacred Things
You have to create your own mythology if the world isn’t supplying it.
Shore Leave • Like Shining From Shook Foil
One of the benefits of producing consistent creative work is that it comes with a narrative network effect: The more people who know and love the story of an object, the stronger the tie to that object becomes.