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Don’t hold on. — That is all.
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Always make space available. Space for feelings, for free thoughts, for development, for yourself. Space for your partner, your children, your friends. Space in the form of time, in the form of attention, in the form of listening.
Give space away.
Intelligence is not central to the success of most life on Earth. Consider the grasses: they’ve flourished across incredibly diverse global environments, without planning or debating a single step. Planarian worms regrow any part of their body and are functionally immortal, a trick we can manage only in science fiction. And a microscopic virus effe... See more
Abigail Desmond • Chaos and cause
Check your own emotions.
Especially if the person is angry and attacking you. It’s time for you to be the non-angry one. Take a good look at this person’s face. It’s a face of someone who is hurt. Maybe saying things unrelated to the hurt.
Replace all of the shocking, mean, hateful, incorrect, ignorant, offensive, cruel things coming out of this pe
... See moreMolly Brodak • How to Be a Good Listener
“My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk[.]”
(John Keats in a letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley, August 16, 1820)
We spend our whole lives hurrying to the end, only to realize that we want to go back to what we hurried past. Life is in the small moments, not the big ones.
humor and Cosmic Comedy
that last part is a *key* argument — and it places the climate discussion back in economic terms and not in left-wing alarmist terms, which is how we can get everyone on board for Massive solutions
