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Tejas Nirantar
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same root impulse—how to live—but one arrives as inheritance, the other as interrogation.
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“the question only grips you because you’ve misdescribed what life is.”
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And if you grow up in a household with a limited emotional vocabulary, this wealth of feeling is a lifeline into full humanity
Simon Sarris@simonsarris
the great benefit to reading fiction, even if years later you do not remember the particulars of stories, is that you carry the moods with you forever this richness of moods is a kind of internal vocabulary
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The shape of courage is self-abnegation: feeling the fullness of emotion but not acting on it. Faith and hope have the same shape (persisting in the face of doubt and despair, respectively.)
This is why meditation is the skill of all skills.
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The entire question over and over and over is: What is trying to be born right here and right now? And how can I help?
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If you cannot sleep, do not fight it. get up and sit in the dark. dont turn on a light, dont touch your phone. sit in the darkness like its a person you came to visit, because it is. the darkness is where God put everything he was not finished with yet, and that includes you. sit with it, ask nothing, and watch what happens. thirty minutes of real darkness will teach you more than ten years of books, because books are men running from silence, and darkness is silence with its eyes open. and it will look at you, and you will want to run. and if you run, you lost the round. get back up tomorrow night, sit again, last longer. eventually it speaks.
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if good men refuse to accumulate money then money accumulates in the hands of demons, and while you contemplate the spiritual corruption of wealth, they're buying your children's destiny. so tell me again how noble it is to stay poor while they grow rich enough to rewrite reality
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The soul is not upgraded by books or by thinking or by wanting to be better, the soul is upgraded by pressure that kills everything fake in you. the way fire does. gold is not purified by being admired, it is thrown into heat until everything that is not gold burns away. and what is left is not beautiful because someone made it beautiful, it is beautiful because there is nothing left to lie. war produces poets, peace produces advertisers. collapse produces saints, comfort produces consumers. this is not an opinion, this is history. read it, and the pattern is so blatant it is stupid how anyone misses it. the best human beings you have ever met were made in the worst times, and the emptiest human beings you have ever met were made in the times that should have been the best
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Fatherhood is the end of philosophy. you can read every book ever written about meaning and purpose and discipline, but the moment a small human looks at you and believes you, everything you thought you knew burns down. because now you have to do it, not think it, not debate it, not post about it. the child watches your hands, what you do when you are tired, what you do when you are mad, what you do when nobody else is looking. that is your only sermon and you cannot fake it for one day because children are bullshit detectors made of flesh. if you are a weak man your son will know it before he can spell the word weak, and he either becomes you or becomes the opposite of you, both out of desperation.
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EVERYTHING EVERYTHING EVERYTHING LIVES & GROWS INSIDE SOMETHING ELSE
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@visakanv since you asked at the end of the first one, i'd love to see a longer take from you on this and "courage" in one of your forthcoming emails!
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it took me a really long time to see frustration tolerance as skill, rather than an innate quality. I think because there were some things I was very determined not to tolerate growing up. So it gets a little complicated. but muddying the details here can get very costly
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greatest tweet of all time
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Twitter turns 20. What is your favorite tweet of all time?
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