july
your musings, thoughts & dreams; welcome here
@downshift.eth
"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside, awakes."
–Carl Jung
with all the earnestness at my command, i implore you to read that more than once, pause, and consider what you may be knowingly or unknowingly hiding from yourself.
fear is a ruse, and you will (eventually) not regret taking courageous steps toward self-actualization. i promise 🫡
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@july
Attention is love, the love and care that you put in.
I think, in many ways, it is all that ends up mattering. I think, in so many ways, everything and anything is just attention to detail, attention to the overall picture, where you choose to spend your time, your energy, life. All these things are attention, which is sort of a unit of measurement of directed life, and I think you attend to things that you love ultimately
Even with AI I don't think many people have a problem even though it is in voice as such. The problem isn't with AI itself. To me the problem is something that doesn't have attention embedded in it. There's less care almost than what looks like it's presented with care and attention. The disjointedness that I feel or hollowness that I feel is something that looks like it was attended to but isn't actually attended. I think that's the part that feels like slop, which ultimately means it's not even about the technology. It's not even about anything really. Just how much do you attend to things and how much do you care and how much time are you willing to put into things that you care about?
What are they? Where are they? Who are they? These are all honestly ultimately the things that matter I think. Whether you make things, whether you just simply attend to things, whether they're grand, make money or don't, or art, or just caring for others, a lot of it is downstream from attention intending itself.
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@adam-
Every time I struggle with momentum, I remind myself that history is littered with people who were also tormented about it, but still made shit happen around the low points.
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@july
I've been thinking about the kind of things I want to make
I want to make things that are tactile but evokes memory. What does that mean? What I mean by that is that you can touch it and you can feel it and remember touching it somewhere at sometime. What we can touch, what we do, for me it often evokes= memories. We compare them to memories. Your favorite toy that you used to bring to bed as a touch and how soft it was. The feeling of a t-shirt the first time you wore it after you bought it. Shoes that fit just right, because you've used them for a while. Tactileness - is a sort of memory.
When I touch objects, I love objects that remind me of a feeling of touching, it transports me through time to places and memories of long ago. Sometimes memories of the future, like this works in a place that doesn't even feel that out of place, but its never been there.
This feeling of remembering, both of the past or the future gives the object a sort of 'rightness' in its existence. Almost like a justification of its existence that goes beyond simple utility, which of course it should serve utility too (nothing wrong with art tho) - but that feeling underneath should hum like a gentle ocean crashing over and over again in the distance.
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@ashwinikumar.eth
Who knew staying foolish and unaware would be one of the most intelligent privileges of the modern world?
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@downshift.eth
“We must be willing to be completely ordinary people, which means accepting ourselves as we are without trying to become greater, purer, more spiritual, more insightful. If we can accept our imperfections as they are, quite ordinarily, then we can use them as part of the path. But if we try to get rid of our imperfections, then they will be enemies, obstacles on the road to our self-improvement.”
–Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Mel Gibson calls this "Hugging the cactus."
Jungians call it shadow work.
it's all the same thing.
and to be clear: this isn't about giving up your desire to improve; it's about being able to radically accept yourself as you are at the exact same time.
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@whimsi.eth
the flower does not fail by wilting
it succeeds by blooming again
we only call it failure when we freeze the story at the moment of loss
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@july
Crazy that we rotate around the sun every year. We’re moving in space constantly
Reminds me of this meme:
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