rob hardy

As more and more people of status and wealth swarmed the event, it replicated the status hierarchies found in the “default world,” although with a psychedelic/floaty Ketamine tinge.

The more you thank God for the life you have, the more your life starts to look like the one you want.

Judging people for conformity shows your lack of compassion and gives it away that you were just like them not too long ago.

We're only really bothered by people who remind us of our recent selves. Just like teenagers can't stand kids and teenagers appear cringe to adults.

Men become monsters by convincing themselves they're saints.

Unreasonably effective writing advice:

"What are you trying to say here?

Okay, just write that."

True style isn’t worn; it’s lived. Fashion isn’t what we wear, but the grace with which we exist

ritualized, compulsive self-disclosure is not intimacy

it’s often a defense mechanism, one that masquerades as vulnerability but actually kills erotic charge, polarity, and mystery

shared experience, unspoken tension, and real-time attunement are the components of intimacy