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The task before us is to reform Christianity back to the way it was in the beginning: a living school inside the preserved form, before the anti-heres

"The impeded stream is the one that sings." —Wendell Berry

why are people more inclined to believe in the concept of ego, but not in God? both are symbols where the substance resides in subjective experience.

This is the key difference, from Erich Fromm: "In conventional Western theology, the attempt is made to know God by thought, to make statements about

for many important things, doing them exactly right is going to feel — from the inside, for long stretches — exactly the same as fucking it up

I am a broken, needy, suffering human, completely inadequate to face life alone. Whenever I try to hide or run from this fact, my suffering compound

"The impeded stream is the one that sings." —Wendell Berry

This is the key difference, from Erich Fromm: "In conventional Western theology, the attempt is made to know God by thought, to make statements about

falling in love is largely about chemistry; staying in love is largely about the cocreation of narrative

With regard to AI, the better question is not “What makes humans special?” but rather “What makes humans happy?”

you can have your culture or your new technology but rarely both.

Christianity, at its root, is a collection of psychotechnologies: practices, symbols, stories, and communal rhythms designed to transform being.

"The obsessive desire to know yourself is itself a pathology. You’re not healed when you wholly understand yourself but when you don’t matter to yours

With regard to AI, the better question is not “What makes humans special?” but rather “What makes humans happy?”

Might be a hot take but starting to think intellectualizing relationship (writing, thinking, theorizing, etc) is somehow antithetical to what real rel

With regard to AI, the better question is not “What makes humans special?” but rather “What makes humans happy?”

The "Passive Income" Trap Ate a Generation of Entrepreneurs

"The impeded stream is the one that sings." —Wendell Berry

With regard to AI, the better question is not “What makes humans special?” but rather “What makes humans happy?”

for many important things, doing them exactly right is going to feel — from the inside, for long stretches — exactly the same as fucking it up

Whether you love / hate / admire / despise / flatter / punish / improve / optimize / forgive / accuse / defend / discipline / betray / rescue or sabot

Might be a hot take but starting to think intellectualizing relationship (writing, thinking, theorizing, etc) is somehow antithetical to what real rel

With regard to AI, the better question is not “What makes humans special?” but rather “What makes humans happy?”

The last few months I’ve been reading new stuff and solving lots of very specific, unsexy problems and it’s suddenly given me a huge distaste for “pro

Might be a hot take but starting to think intellectualizing relationship (writing, thinking, theorizing, etc) is somehow antithetical to what real rel

With regard to AI, the better question is not “What makes humans special?” but rather “What makes humans happy?”

I never know how to answer when a barista asks me, “and what’s a good name for you?” “A *good* name? I know only the one I bear, the one my mother g

“I think you really can feel it with companies where the people creating the products are inherently interested in culture,” he says. “They’re not tou

I understand why people are obsessed with rules: it’s fun to pretend that we can control the future. It’s pleasing to think all this messiness is temp

Every Native project answers three questions: 1. What are you building? 2. Why does it matter? 3. What does the world look like if you win? Maja dra

falling in love is largely about chemistry; staying in love is largely about the cocreation of narrative

"The impeded stream is the one that sings." —Wendell Berry

"The obsessive desire to know yourself is itself a pathology. You’re not healed when you wholly understand yourself but when you don’t matter to yours

A successful relationship is nothing more than a package of haphazard remedies and rickety fixes that people would only ever devise and maintain when

The only proof of practice is the quality of your most intimate relationships. Everything else is noise.

The cleanest signal of healthy presence I know: how curious someone gets about you, now. Separate from what they need you to be. Free from what they t

Might be a hot take but starting to think intellectualizing relationship (writing, thinking, theorizing, etc) is somehow antithetical to what real rel

But zoom out and what you had was just an enormous machine converting human ambition into noise. Affiliate spam // dropshipped junk // ebooks about pa

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today l

The "Passive Income" Trap Ate a Generation of Entrepreneurs

You can’t outwork the whole world. There’s always going to be someone somewhere willing to work as hard as you. Someone just as hungry. Or hungrier.

"The impeded stream is the one that sings." —Wendell Berry

I have no idea whether the historical Jesus existed exactly as the Gospels describe, though I lean yes. What I am certain of is that the story of Jesu

So attend to what isn't getting said in a conversation. Listen for the absence and speak to it. It will not fail you.

creativity is a game of trust

via shawn smucker <3 Be sure to use AI when making your next, I don’t know, meal plan, for example. Definitely do not call your friend who loves to co

i cannot overstate how big the difference is between a - learning a map, then venturing into the territory, and b - venturing through the territory,

When I watch a Miyazaki film I can’t help but think about his attunement to the world, the presence it requires to transmute the real world into a fan

Art keeps humans Alive

“Air, water, plants, animals, and humans give themselves to each other. It's in this giving that we actually live.” -Kodo Sawaki

we are all normies in the eyes of the Lord

for many important things, doing them exactly right is going to feel — from the inside, for long stretches — exactly the same as fucking it up

I am a broken, needy, suffering human, completely inadequate to face life alone. Whenever I try to hide or run from this fact, my suffering compound

The things you know you need to do, to get in right relationship, to be aligned with life, you dont have to wait until you love yourself, you can do t

It can, in some cases, be a humungous act of love and surrender to allow ourselves to be misunderstood by those who we most wish could or would try to

I am a broken, needy, suffering human, completely inadequate to face life alone. Whenever I try to hide or run from this fact, my suffering compound