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- "Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new."
(Ursula K. Le Guin)from Tweet by Vidhika Bansal
- One thing adults conceal about sex they also conceal about drugs: that it can cause great pleasure. That's what makes sex and drugs so dangerous. The desire for them can cloud one's judgement—which is especially frightening when the judgement being clouded is the already wretched judgement of a teenage kid.
Here parents' desires conflict. Older soci... See morefrom Lies We Tell Kids
- 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
- "The economy is just smart people paying beautiful people to promote stuff to insecure people." — @ShaanVP
from Tweet by David Perell
For the largest part of our species’ existence, humans have negotiated relationships with every aspect of the sensuous surroundings, exchanging possibilities with every flapping form, with each textured surface and shivering entity that we happened to focus upon. All could speak, articulating in gesture and whistle and sigh a shifting web of meanin
... See morefrom The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram
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 Fremen proverb from Dune by Frank Herbert :
"Be prepared to appreciate what you meet."
Source: Dune
from 3-2-1: How to Be Consistent, the Value of Beauty, and Designing for Relaxation by James Clear
- "In my view, the realistic goal to be attained through spiritual practice is not some permanent state of enlightenment that admits of no further efforts but a capacity to be free in this moment, in the midst of whatever is happening. If you can do that, you have already solved most of the problems you will encounter in life."
from Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harriss
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