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The mind is cluttered, filled with concerns that seem urgent but, on closer inspection, do little to serve our deeper well-being. Simplification is not just a matter of decluttering our physical surroundings—it is a way of thinking, of living. As we quiet the noise within, we see more clearly what truly matters. We focus, not on everything, but on
... See moreWhen you are madly in love, the most radical thing you can do is nothing. You shouldn’t care anymore. You have dropped the pen. There is no better story. There is only this, and this is enough. Let the world go on spinning. You, on the other hand, have already arrived.
What should you do when you're madly in love?
There's a lot of language around presence being a “slow” thing, to “slow down and notice”. I feel some resistance to that. I think I can run and still feel the sun on my face and legs. The rush of taking it in from a leap, rather than from a cross-legged pose
can you dance, run and still be present? can you get quicker at creating those places of acting from intent rather than impulse? does impulse connect to presence? perhaps not. is the goal to slow your internal pace always? how? meditation? repeating positive brain pathways/language?
this is our place. we make the rules - @poemsandpeonies #chelseadiane
I hope you will find the cracks in the world and wedge them wider, so the light of other suns shines through; I hope you will keep the world unruly, messy, full of strange magics; I hope you will run through every open Door and tell stories when you return.
Your daily Readwise: Mia Birdsong, Alix E. Harrow, and more
How to Be Creative and Words to Revisit
create, adore & protect my own “strange magics"
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“I want to talk briefly about noticing, and how literature can make us better, or more serious, noticers. I will speak about three kinds of serious noticing—aesthetic noticing, human noticing, and metaphysical noticing. By aesthetic noticing, I mean the function that poetry and fiction have to help us see the world more closely and carefully—to see
... See morethe intersection of literature/poetry/reading and sensuality. the self-awareness, self-consciousness that it creates…
HOW DOES SEEKING & YEARNING INTERSECT WITH PRESENCE?