Natalie Audelo

@natalieaudelo

designing social architecture and community experiences that build trust, generate creativity, and encourage authentic human connection. exploring the healing power of play, movement, music and other integrative practices.

All we ever seek, and all we ever avoid are feelings. Feelings run the world. They constitute the only useful product of all material transactions between humans and their environment. Just like your body can’t use the food it eats for energy until it’s turned to glucose, we can’t really make use of the things we seek until they deliver certain fee... See more
from What you want is never a thing by David Cain
feelings run the world
New humanism is the philosophy of creative writing. It is a philosophy of disciplined individualism, of crafted authenticity.
from Reader
Millions of people — and white people in particular — would rather endure physical isolation, generalized loneliness, caregiving exhaustion, and financial precarity than relinquish some of their societal power. That’s a far less optimistic foundational myth than individualism. But it’s a far more honest one.
from The Dark Heart of Individualism
power structures and dynamics
Cowie posits fantasy as a “mise-en-scene of desire”: a setting forth of an elaborate scene of drawn-out pleasure, of almosts and near-misses, of denial and the controlling of masculine and feminine subject positions. In Cowe’s words, “fantasy depends not on particular objects, but on their setting out; and the pleasure of fantasy lies in the settin... See more
from You Only Like the Beginning of Things
🔥 this Bob Dylan lyric: "I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now"
The crucial point is: by changing ourselves, we change the world. As we become more loving on the inside, healing occurs on the outside. Much like the rising of the sea level lifts all ships, so the radiance of unconditional love within a human heart lifts all of life
from Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender a book by David R. Hawkins by David R. Hawkins
energy healing
We have a public imagination that cannot conceive of what exactly to do with children, especially smart children. We fail to properly respect them through adolescence, so we have engineered them to be useless, and so they shuffle through a decade of busywork. Partly, the length of schooling has increased simply because it could—because we no longer
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from School Is Not Enough by Simon Sarris
When I was younger, I was skateboarding a lot. I was listening to music and skateboarding. There were two songs, that are widely different: DJ Shadow’s “Building Steam With a Grain of Salt,” and Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right.” And I remember skateboarding to them and they made me just stop. And the world felt so cool. I would look a... See more
from On redefining what it means to be successful
redefining success and
When have I felt most joyful this year and what steps can I take to recreate those conditions?
from 3-2-1: On creating the conditions for joy, how to go to hell, and the simple way to clarify your thinking
good questions

from What you want is never a thing by David Cain

from Reader

from The Dark Heart of Individualism

from You Only Like the Beginning of Things

from Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender a book by David R. Hawkins by David R. Hawkins

from School Is Not Enough by Simon Sarris

from On redefining what it means to be successful

from 3-2-1: On creating the conditions for joy, how to go to hell, and the simple way to clarify your thinking