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"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you.
If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you."
– The Gospel of Thomas
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Whenever you feel paralyzed by the thought that it’s all been done before,
Remember that basically the earliest Hero Myth we have, Gilgamesh, contains a whole bunch of nods to how overdone everything about Hero Myths was even then
And we still kept making new cool stuff
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When someone says “be realistic” they mean “drink my artisanal blend of optimism and resignation”
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a piece of underrated advice I got was that you have to fully own your own cringe in order to own your life
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with no preparation, luck arrives at your door like an angel in the night and sees you are not ready
you will never realize you missed your chance
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Being an adult in the modern world is a fundamentally different experience than in previous generations. In this blog post, I talk about some of the issues adults are facing today, and why some people are stuck in a state I call "Chronically 20".
roobz.substack.com/p/chronic…
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“Today’s performance subject only knows two states: functioning or failing.”
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crypto grifters are fun to hate on, but at least they're more honest than their counterparts in tech and finance
you don't really see tech or finance grifters describing themselves as degenerates or r***rds. or joking about getting jobs at mcdonalds when they're liquidated
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To be an artist is to distill the truth through your own resonance chambers until it is clear enough for others to see.
teapawt.net/AskYatharth/status/140…
Replying to @AskYatharth
Three men who found their aesthetic and held on to their experienced truth with enough clarity to convey it to the world.
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To my fellow highly sensitive people:
I believe we’re all top-quality microphones.
We pick up details and subtleties that others can’t capture, BUT we’re easily overwhelmed by loud signals. We clip. We fuzz out. We redline.
We owe it to ourselves to attenuate our worlds.
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there’s something so threatening/untethered/free about people who are fundamentally uninterested in “being approved of”
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Being unkind is one of the cheapest, easiest sources of control and power. Being kind, on the other hand, is hard because of this exact reason — it means you'll need to do the hard, grimy work to feel any sense of control.
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Twitter has some really interesting people - here are 10 thought-provoking ideas, concepts, and musings I've seen this month:
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To me it’s completely obvious that consciousness is in no way special or unique, at most a random artifact of our nervous systems
The history of science is humans getting knocked off our ego-centric pedestals one after another
Consciousness is the geocentrism of our time – at Long Beach, CA
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TODAY:
Is the self an illusion?
This is a core issue surround psychedelia. Join @alexkcriddle and @noampomsky in exploring the fundamental texts and topics in psychedelics.
interintellect.com/salon/is-…






















