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I am trying to trim back the space I take online as I re-negotiate how i want to be in relationship with these human made devices and tools.
It feels GOOD to opt out of services (ESPECIALLY paid ones) that don’t resonate, or whose values are questionable. To unsubscribe feels like taking a lil bit of my power back from places where it has been leaking.
I know we are in an attention economy, and to reclaim our sovereignty is to become aware of the dance of our attention, moment to moment..
a conversation between radha pithadia and kristen sison about the liminal (being the moment we are in)
“Cool loneliness allows us to look honestly & without aggression at our own minds. We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be. We give it up and just look directly with compassion and humour at who we are. Then loneliness is not threat and heartache, no punishment.” Pema Chödrön
“how can i have faith in anything if i believe that there are parts of me that can’t come along for the ride. you know? and how can i trust that things are going to be okay, if i’m controlling myself so hard, that if i veer from this, i’ll ruin something somehow. as i work through all of that within myself, i think that is what i offer into the grand collective. just a remembrance that those dirty parts of us, those weird parts of us, those parts of us that we think can’t come along, that’s actually exactly* where the medicine is. it’s exactly where our learning is. exactly where our truth is. you know?” - adwoa
“i think the future always feels so far away, but also if we’re talking generationally, if we talk ancestrally, it’s like the seeds are now. so what do i feel for right now? i think a lot of what it feels like is what i’m actually trying to hold in myself. i think the idea of nuance is what comes to mind. the both/and-ness. this idea of the one absolute, or The One Right Way, feels really colonial to me - it feels like such a necessity for those systems that serve to prove that there is only One on top. and i’ve struggled with that always, i’ve struggled with that my entire life…” - Adwoa
“i really think that we are at a point where we might be a little bit beyond this logic brain philosophizing… i think there’s another language, which is feeling — and that is a language in itself, and is giving us information… i can only speak from my own experience + perception of how things go, but: i don’t think this is a time of over-intellectualizing. i think it’s a time of tuning into the energetic language of feelings; that is where the information is.”
“The mind sets up boundaries
of reasonable expectation and declares,
“This is the natural order.”
Love enters and knows no boundaries.
The presence of Love,
which is indeed the only reality that exists,
takes all of mind's careful planning
and simply blows it to bits.”
“Our souls aspire towards growth, that is, toward remembering all that we have forgotten due to our trip to this place, the earth. In this context, a body in pain is a soul in longing. ” — Elder Malidoma Patrice Somé