Christianna
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Christianna
Just as abundant food and lack of required physical labor created an "obesogenic" environment (making it easy to be overweight), abundant information and AI are creating a "stupidogenic" environment by allowing us to "cognitively offload" our thinking (making it easy to be mentally lazy). — Eva Keiffenheim MSc Substack
More than the grand beauties of our lives, wonder is about having the presence to pay attention to the commonplace. It could be said that to find beauty in the ordinary is a deeper exercise than climbing to the mountaintop.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.”
Virginia Woolf, Modern Fiction, 1919
research is a way of life
it is an ongoing process that should be fun and led by curiosity and a desire to explore what is unknown to you
it goes beyond what formal education tells you research is— it should not feel like something you have to do. it should be something you love to do because research exists everywhere— research is looking up a
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By now you may be asking: what is a beautiful sentence? The answer is that beauty, in a sentence, is ultimately as difficult to quantify or describe as beauty in a painting or a human face. Perhaps a more accurate explanation might be something like Emily Dickinson’s well-known definition of poetry: “If I feel physically as if the top of my head
... See moreFrancine Prose • Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
Taking notes, I’ve come to realize, is a form of collecting. I’ve never been interested in collecting physical things, but when it comes to beautiful literary quotes, I have thousands of notebook entries.
Jillian Hess • Alfred Kinsey's Notes on Americans' Sex-Lives
People who meditate are working to strengthen their conscious connection with the Authentic Self. This part of consciousness is the gateway to the spiritual dimensions that have been written about and described since ancient times.