Sofia Melfi
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Sofia Melfi
Boredom, that yearning for stimulation and distraction, for something to pass the time, is simply how we experience any pause in the program of control that seeks to deny pain.
Charles Eisenstein • The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
When I watch a Miyazaki film I can’t help but think about his attunement to the world, the presence it requires to transmute the real world into a fantastical one. That’s the interesting contradiction of writers and artists, I suppose: alienation is a necessity, but so is participation. The point of getting better is to be more in the world.
creativity and nature
Nature transcends our tendencies to label and classify, to reduce and limit. The natural world is unfathomably more rich, interwoven, and complicated than we are taught, and so much more mysterious and beautiful.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Our desire for moral good and moral bad to be neatly defined gets in the way of progress. There can be no singular truth in all circumstances, but because some self-beliefs border on intolerance, discourse is reduced to the same arguments of who is right and who is wrong. The way we ordain and absolve guilt and blame from others is very indicative... See more
Terrified of being liked.
Fully recognizing that non-human plants, animals and others have their own worlds which are fundamentally different and unknowable to us is to begin to end human exceptionalism and human supremacism.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
“Do you know sometimes when gathering nectar, bees fall asleep in flowers? Do you know fish are so sensitive snowflakes sound like fireworks when they land on the water?”
Andrea Gibson - Homesick: A Plea for Our Planet
#AndreaGibson #YouBetterBeLightning #LordoftheButterflies #buttonpoetry... See more
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In other words, a religious myth is a story capable of lifting the experience of being from the confines of time, space, randomness and blind automatism.