the depth of a conversation depends on how deeply seen you feel, not on the topic of conversation

Too many people think freedom is the ability to do anything you want, instead of the discipline to not be a slave to your compulsions.

attention as inner ecology—and then, I could see ways that a holistic system was imperiled. I could see an inner landscape as a patch of thriving rainforest, a complex, interdependent ecology slashed back and stripped bare to accommodate the incursions of an export crop (and as we know, export crops don’t feed the locals). The long-rooted, sustaina... See more

I’m convinced that it’s going to become a straightforwardly high-status, elite play to renounce phones, social media, and many other aspects of digital culture. In a world of insane information abundance and always-on connection, reclaiming the stillness of your own mind will be akin to flying private.

If I’m right, we’ll see a growing divide betwee

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We thought we were just having fun times with devices; it turns out we were spreading nuclear waste over the entire surface of the earth. Piling up heaps of radioactive slag inside our homes. Smearing it over our faces at night. And then a generation was born into that poisoned world; we got to watch them take shape, and it became obvious how broke... See more

My definition of good transfiguration is allowing people I trust to show me what they see in me clearly. We see ourselves with a great deal of blurriness, often with a negative tilt. Other people can see the line of continuity threaded through every seemingly disjointed experience, or the richness in your raw material. Other people can very much he... See more