rob hardy

emotions contain both wisdom and delusion, and by experiencing them without clinging on, we can integrate their wisdom and let go of the delusion.

Consider one more possibility: that the people who seem to slow us down and hold us back are actually preventing things from happening too fast. Imagine that the evolution of your life or our culture is like a pregnancy: It needs to reach its full term. Just as a child isn’t ready to be born after five months of gestation, the New Earth we’re

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you may not be able to escape audience capture, but you can at least curate your audience so that you become captured in a way that's beneficial to you

The goal of U.S. immigration policy should be to find Americans who happen to have been born abroad, and bring them home.

hey bro. not a big deal but just checking in because it seems like your arc is stuck on filler episodes. i mean they’re cool and it’s nothing urgent but just wondering when the plot is going to start advancing again

Resonance is being in flow state but with another person.

To find resonance, you need to create. Creation is an act of tapping a tuning fork and seeing who resonates. Creation is the risk. Resonance is the reward.

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