Stuart Evans
- A relationship is a container in which two people can draw each other's spirit, through love, up from the depths and near to the surface of Being, where it can most easily be accessed and made manifest. To honor the natural sacredness of love is first to honor one's own, until one can recognize it in others, and include it in the scope of one's spi... See more
from A Relationship Manifesto by Vivid Void
- Ontological pluralism is a commitment to multiple realities, many of which overlap, but some of which remain (at least for now) irreconcilable. It is not a commitment to tolerance of multiple perspectives on a single reality. This latter option, as Bryant points out, would be a rather trivial form of pluralism. It is also a rather colonialist and s... See more
from Life in the Pluriverse: Towards a Realistic Pluralism by Matthew David Segall
- Instead of assuming from the get go that anyone who doesn’t describe the world in your favored language is deluded, try to get to know them, to understand not only what their world is like, but how their world is brought forth. Follow the injunctions through which they enact their world. Then, once you’ve explored it from the inside, by all means j... See more
from Life in the Pluriverse: Towards a Realistic Pluralism by Matthew David Segall
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from Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior
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from How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
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from The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
- there’s no character trait more essential to individual and societal progress than agency. Agency is the embodied conviction that you have the power to create meaningful change in your life and transform your vision into reality. It’s the engine that powers human progress.
from Grappling with the big questions
- Desire is actually magic, as far as I've seen. I can't count how many times I've watched people hone and shape and pour time and energy into their desires, only to have that desire appear in their life through weird, non-linear, frankly baffling ways — ways that include but don’t easily reduce to the work they’ve put in. The stream of creation seem... See more
from Varieties of Desirous Experience
- Desire is the closest thing there is to magic. Nothing else changes the world so powerfully, so quickly. Nothing else builds empires or families or great works of art. Nothing else rearranges my perception so fully, making some things salient and others basically invisible. Even in spiritual lineages dedicated to ending desire entirely, the startin... See more
from Varieties of Desirous Experience by River Kenna