Stuart Evans
- I don’t actually care that you even know about the chakras. I do care that you remember your wholeness. I don’t care if you’re woo or not. I do care that you are moving in a way that creates a life you want to be living as the person you are.
- There is a spectrum of background mental states, from “suicidal/dissociated/freaked out” to “abiding peace, happiness, and energy.” Nearly everyone can get pretty far up that spectrum. Nearly everyone can experience profound healing and become thoroughly Okay. It is your birthright.
from How I Attained Persistent Self-Love, Or, I Demand Deep Okayness for Everyone by Sasha Chapin
- Basically, the idea here is that America produced a lot of highly educated people with great expectations for their place in American society, but that our economic and social system was unable to accommodate many of these expectations, causing them to turn to leftist politics and other disruptive actions out of frustration and disappointment.
from The Elite Overproduction Hypothesis by Noah Smith
- The more effectively we can share ideas, and treat them as composable pieces that are meant to be built upon, and iterated, the faster we'll progress in our ideas.
from Open-Source Knowledge by Kyle Harrison
- What we need is an ethos that comes to terms with contemporary, industrialized food, not one that dismisses it, an ethos that opens choices for everyone, not one that closes them for many so that a few may enjoy their labor, and an ethos that does not prejudge, but decides case by case when natural is preferable to processed, fresh to preserved, ol... See more
from A Plea for Culinary Modernism by Rachel Laudan
- At its extremes, the Modernist elevation of science and materialism — both that science is the only means for answering problems, and reality is solely built from unconscious matter — has an axiomatic quality that borders on faith.
from Is Religion Coming Back? by Alexander Beiner
- Clear and unbiased truth in our information ecology is seriously limited by the amount of bullshit we consume every day, in part a result of the overwhelming intensity of marketing motives and the conformity demands of our in-group. Furthermore, the intentions of our information sources are as often as not based on clickbait or ideology rather than... See more
from The War on Sensemaking by Rebel Wisdom
- Relationships are like gazing into clear, bottomless pools of water. Look hard enough and you’ll meet the eyes of your own reflection. Stare into the soul of someone else long enough, and you’ll fall deeper into the abyss of yourself. The more you love the person in front of you, the more you understand yourself.
from The Autonomy of Monogamy by Grace Capobianco