Nellie
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Nellie
The concept that sits right at the heart of a sane and meaningful life, I’m increasingly convinced, is something like aliveness. It goes by other names, too, none of which quite nail it – but it’s the one thing that, so long as you navigate by it, you’ll never go too far wrong. Sometimes it feels like a subtle electrical charge behind what’s
... See moreI would say that this is the center of living beings—longing for life.
(light paraphrase of Andreas Weber)
Simple Gifts
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for my holy word is spoken
Lie beneath the raging billows
Twist and wave and bend like willows
Shaker hymn
Identity is not fixed and therefore objectivity as we know it is a binary-creating myth. Poetic objectivity is the shared desire to create living relationships.
from Andreas Weber (Advaya Course)
The coffee shop where 162 regulars have their own mug (1977)
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With idea, sound, or gesture, the duende enjoys fighting the creator on the very rim of the well. Angel and muse escape with violin, meter, and compass; the duende wounds. In the healing of that wound, which never closes, lie the strange, invented qualities of a man's work.