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Thoughts ➡️ feelings ➡️ actions ➡️ results

reminder: a regulated nervous system becomes a vortex of safety + connection for others who might be less grounded or experiencing intensity

"If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s." -Joseph Campbell highexistence.com/the-path-how-i…

🤓 Learn This Word 🤓 Flâner: to purposely wander, to decide to explore with no final destination.

🤓 Learn This Word 🤓 Cynefin: A welsh word that describes a place where a person or an animal feels it ought to live and belong; it is where nature around you feels right and welcoming 🌳

📸 Image of the Week 📸 This is a work-in-progress AI Poetry Polaroid. Take a picture and it prints a poem instead of a photo 🤯 Credit: @Flomerboy

🤓 Learn This Word 🤓 Fernweh: A German word meaning to have a yearning to see distant places ✈️

“She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” -Carl Sagan Find this and a collection of other iconic Carl Sagan quotes on the blog! highexistence.com/carl-sagan-quo…

"Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? That we by tracing magic lines are taught, How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT?" -Marshall McLuhan

@andrewpgsweeny - thought you might like to know we linked to your Medium article on 'Religion and Horror' in our new year reflection article:)

Check it out: highexistence.com/end-of-year-re…

Struggling with your New Year's resolution or wanting to restart the year from now? Give our article on conducting an end-of-year review a look-see. We show you how to do your own, share what you can expect to achieve and explain why it might be the best thing you do all year.

🤓Learn This Word🤓 Fargin: a yiddish word that means to wholeheartedly appreciate the success of others

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!” Miguel de Cervantes

It’s a very interesting shift of perspective and that’s all it is… joyful participation in the sorrows and everything changes." - Joseph Campbell

"We’re in a freefall into future. We don’t know where we’re going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you’re going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act...