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Closed questions are also bad questions. Instead of surrendering power, the questioner is imposing a limit on how the question can be answered.
from How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks
- Healing is not becoming the best version of ourselves. Healing is letting the worst version of ourselves be loved.
from Tweet by Renee Solana
Trees fall with spectacular crashes. But planting is silent and growth is invisible.
from The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers
- Boredom is the opposite of anxiety.
Protagoras observed a strange paradox about language. Despite the perpetual flux and change of the physical world, language lends the mistaken impression that the world is not in flux, that it is stable. As the Presocratic philosopher Empedocles had observed only a few years before, ‘there is no birth for any mortal thing, nor any cursed end in dea
... See morefrom Ancient Greek Antilogic Is the Craft of Suspending Judgment by Robin Reames
- A man does not really begin to be alive until he has lost himself. Until he has released the anxious grasp which he normally holds upon his life, his property, his reputation and position.
from Tweet by Alan Watts | Philosophy & Timeless Wisdom
Offering undivided attention and curiosity not only lowers the temperature of a conversation but can change its outcome
from Why Listening Well Can Make Disagreements Less Damaging by Guy Itzchakov
- when we are born, we experience reality with very few “priors” – preexisting beliefs, expectations, conceptual schemas through which to filter what we see. And so a child’s experience is an endless explosion of vividness. Slowly we start to make sense of the world, we start to notice repeating patterns, we start to establish boundaries between “me”... See more
from Tastes of magic by Kasra
- 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
from Chaos and cause by Abigail Desmond