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In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

“Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.” - Robin Norwood

A feminine-centric recovery paradigm assumes that you are already whole and perfect; it is not you who is broken but the system; you are the expert on

“‘Help meet’ was never meant to be a title of servitude. In Hebrew it was written “ezer kenegdo” meaning a strength that stands face to face. The same

witchcraft is how you learn to manipulate energy through connection with nature. they want you to believe it’s demonic because you cannot be controlle

you can buy a session but i'm telling you rn: just admit what you really want and then suffer for it sustainably and with erotic passion. fall in love

@TheStalwart and the rest of my Claude Code for Absolute Dummies starter guide: https://t.co/OsinPgLyjV

The tendency to think of A.I. as a magical problem solver is indicative of a desire to avoid the hard work that building a better world requires. That

i think a lot of the current creator paradigm is sort of spiritually dead, including a lot of my writing over the years too what i mean is that there

To attempt an answer, I return to Ruefle, who quotes her friend responding to this epistemology of doubt: “The difference between myself and a student

A poetics of bewilderment honors debate; it also prepares students to stake their claim to participate fully in a conversation about anything, not sol

I’ve been asked many times to either select or to write (the greatest honor) a poem to read at a wedding or a funeral. My friends request these poems

Over the course of four semesters, the question at the heart of my pedagogy changed. Instead of asking students “What does the olive mean?” I learned

The thing is, the only way to become a secure person is by making real peace with insecurity - because to develop real security, you must learn to sit

These moments feel uncomfortable initially, but something interesting happens: your body starts telling you before your brain does that peace exists w

new word request: nihilism that results from a lifetime of resisting nihilism & failing

What makes me want to keep reading a nonfiction text is the encounter with a surprising, well-stocked mind as it takes on the challenge of the next se

To me, the best writing should explore something uncomfortable, it should subvert an idea that other people are already comfortable believing.

We've all heard the advice: write what you know but I dare you to write what you wish you DIDN'T know. Your weird insecurities, your loneliness, the f

increasingly convinced the work of a truly great editor or writing teacher is to keep asking “why do you care?” until you reach the live wire under th

“Guru favor” is to lose yourself in the teacher. This isn’t the way. You don’t lose yourself. You shine a light into ancient darkness, through your te

I think we do well to remember that the greatest teachers of our history are people who moved against the stream, sometimes at huge personal cost.

If we imagine somehow that our suffering will dissolve if we only do such and such, or if we are crushed by the weight of it, then we don’t have the e

We may find that we’re living in reaction to the suffering that we’re unwilling to see and think about. So the idea that suffering is some sort of mis

Evolution doesn’t care about any one of us: superhero or not. It doesn’t even care about our species as a whole. The only thing that matters is the co

natural selection as “the survival and improvement of the species through the demise of the individual” the marginalian

“One of the privileges of being an American Buddhist is the opportunity we have to speak openly about such things and try new things. American Buddhis

For Joko, that meant looking at the limitations of the koan system — that as wonderful as it was for producing certain kinds of insights, it seemed to

Nobody ever talks about how the concept of the Individual must be so integral to what the universe is trying to accomplish that it's willing to lose t

“the unfed mind devours itself” - gore vidal

The point is not to try harder; it's to resist life less.

@erinmartina @emokendallroy When God sings with his creations, will a turtle not be part of the choir?

It takes courage to do what you want. Other people have a lot of plans for you. Nobody wants you to do what you want to do. They want you to go on the

Giving up desire after desire is a lengthy process with the end never in sight. Leave alone your desires and fears, give your entire attention to the

When clients tell me they don't know how to access what they want, I ask them what they're angry about. Anger is the fastest shortcut to buried desire

I’m studying the subversive use of power. I’m making a list: * claiming you can feel something in me that I can’t feel myself. frame-control masquera

In there I see tactics as - assumed access to inner state / spiritual state / other dimensions of knowing (defining reality nonfalsifiably) - weaponis

until it happens to you, you will think you are very careful, very responsible, very smart, very religious, very mature, very private, very etc.

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 192

You've been taught that in order to be happy, you need to • Chase goals • Accomplish things • Hit milestones Only to find that none of it really las

This is a field in which one is challenged to act; it is your actions alone that define you.

Self-respect is something that our grandparents, whether or not they had it, knew all about. They had instilled in them, young, a certain discipline,

Half of Silicon Valley talks about taste now the way sommelier hobbyists talk about terroir: with enormous confidence, zero productive capacity, and t

A world in which artists think like entrepreneurs, he writes in the Atlantic, is one where “You’re a musician and a photographer and a poet; a storyte

A world in which artists think like entrepreneurs, he writes in the Atlantic, is one where “You’re a musician and a photographer and a poet; a storyte

It made me think of Volant Lee, the great journalist of the Fifty-Second Street Network, who said that’s how you ought to look into a camera. If you f

I think the key to posting online / being seen online is not feeling responsible for anyone who’s not caught up on your lore. You won’t be able to sto