Phil Nguyen
- . . . the match [is] not always or primarily instrumental to getting a date but rather as producing a form of satisfaction in its own right. [. . .] A match feels like a confidence-boost; it is a sign that the Other sees you and likes you [. . . ]. Admittedly, it is ephemeral, but it is also replicable, so the sense of void that follows the fleetin... See more
from Dangerous Dating Protocols Web by Shreeda Segan
It is this ability to know everything there is about money just by counting it that makes money appear so straightforward and concrete. And yet, almost nothing is more symbolic in its very nature. Money only has meaning as something that stands for something else, as a social phenomenon, as part of a web of interpersonal obligations, and as a symbo
... See moreMoney is defined and functional only in terms of how it interacts within the economic/social matrix that ties us together. It's meaning is tied to a web of exchange.
From "Full Pockets, Empty Lives" -Watchel 2003
- Reality can’t be fixed, because it has no fundamental flaw. There’s just things we like, and things we don’t like, and ways we can respond to them.
from Tantra is anti-spiritual | Vividness
- Living organisms are truly complex and antifragile (3) in a way our technological systems are not.
from Understanding Living Systems
This is Darwinian evolution in a nutshell: adaptation through natural selection in populations of individuals across many generations.
But this is not the only way organisms can improve through challenges: they can also adapt their physiology, growth, or behavior to their arena (environment) as individuals within a single life span because they are autonomous agents. As the famous evolutionary biologist Richard Lewontin put it: “the organism is both the subject and the object of evolution.” - The jhanas, which derive from Buddhism, are eight states of consciousness that allegedly produce strong feelings in the body and mind. They can be accessed through a meditation technique that involves concentrating the mind on an object, then gradually deepening the sensation that arises.
from Manufacturing Bliss
Does it matter what kind of sensation is being focused on or nah?
- Staying with something is to change and deepen whatever we are staying with; staying itself is a journey that always leads to altering our further departures. Sojourn takes its definition by being a stay between journeys that is also a journey in itself.
from Sojourn by David Whyte
- For tantra, the energy that drives bad habits is the same as a specific form of wisdom. For example, irritation and mental clarity are produced by the same energy. (I do think very clearly about software.) The methods of tantra allow you to flip each klesha into the corresponding wisdom.
from Your self is not a spiritual obstacle | Vividness
- Several studies have found that an individual’s attachment style with romantic partners is not congruent with their attachment style with their parents, a finding consistent with the many other studies that suggest people have different attachment styles in different relationships. The idea that all relationships can be explained through a set of e... See more
from Don't Be So Attached to Attachment Theory
