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To love is to open.
To open is to risk.
That’s the paradox.
-ram dass
People who have not experienced the thing are unlikely to be generating truth. More likely, they’re resurfacing cached thoughts and narratives. Reading popular science books or news articles is not a substitute for understanding, and may make you stupider, by filling your mind with narratives and stories that don’t represent your own synthesis.
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Borrowed ideas feel hollow because THEY ARE hollow. They haven't been tempered by your judgment or enriched by your experience. They're just intellectual hand-me-downs.
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations—one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it—you will regret both.” — Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or
Knowing I’ll never fully know anyone is what makes it feel like such a gift when someone lets me in, even a little.
- Postscrip by liv (substack)
In high-energy emotional states, such as falling in love, grief, awe, psychedelics, and deep meditation, the brain becomes molten, its patterns loosened, more open to reorganization.
There probably exists someone who enabled that evolution of personality. A parent, a friend group, a spouse. It is rare for people to come into themselves if no one is excited and curious about their core, their potential. We need someone who gives us space to unfold.
-Henrik Karlsson (relationships are coevolutionary loops)
When I actually stop, really stop, not just pause long enough to scroll or sip coffee, then I notice something strange.
The quiet isn’t empty.
It’s full.
- Ram Dass