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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.
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)
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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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
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)
“An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he’s AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you’re constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you’ll sort of be alright.”
— Bob Dylan
To love is to open.
To open is to risk.
That’s the paradox.
-ram dass