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Let Yourself Be The Milky Way

By: swissmiss — June 26th 2023 at 11:15

“You keep worrying
you’re taking up too much space.
I wish you’d let yourself
be the Milky Way.”
Andrea Gibson

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A Universal “Data-base” of Positive Intentions

By: swissmiss — June 22nd 2023 at 14:45

“Around the world, people create amazing experiences and opportunities. When they do, energetically, it becomes available to everyone. Think of it as a universal database of Creative Consciousness. One that we are all uploading our divine talents to. Therefore, we make them vibrationally accessible to kindred spirits across the globe.”
What is Creative Consciousness?

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How can you trust people so much?

By: swissmiss — June 22nd 2023 at 14:27

“I’m often asked: How can you trust people so much?
Because that’s the only way it works.”

(Thank you Melanie)

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A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden

By: swissmiss — June 22nd 2023 at 14:23

A garden is a collection of evolving ideas that aren’t strictly organised by their publication date. They’re inherently exploratory – notes are linked through contextual associations. They aren’t refined or complete – notes are published as half-finished thoughts that will grow and evolve over time. They’re less rigid, less performative, and less perfect than the personal websites we’re used to seeing.

Great read: A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden

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Not Judgmental

By: swissmiss — June 16th 2023 at 15:27

“Be curious, not judgmental.”
– Walt Whitman

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Digital Gardens

By: swissmiss — June 12th 2023 at 13:32

“…as I wander the internet, I wonder where the digital gardens are that will connect me to fellow gardeners more deeply. More often than not, the digital gardens of today are botanic—privately owned online spaces made for visitors to fawn over while a “do not touch” sign looms in view. These private gardens are generative for our personal learning, but they are far from the communal gardens I grew up in that valued collective work and knowledge. Where are the digital gardens that lead us towards collective learning, play, and dreaming?”

On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity by Annika Hansteen-Izora

(Thank you Annie)

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Magic Happens Through Relationships

By: swissmiss — June 9th 2023 at 20:19

“Magic happens through relationships and through faith. How do you build the trust so that people believe that magic is possible? You hae to let people cultivate solidarity and love for each other, individually; almost anything can happen in a room where people have that level of connection with at least a few others in that space. That’s all you need.
Adrienne Maree Brown

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The Ultimate Touchstone of Friendship

By: swissmiss — June 6th 2023 at 21:18

“The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self, the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.”
– David Whyte

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Practice Any Art

By: swissmiss — June 6th 2023 at 11:15

“Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.”
Kurt Vonnegut

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Improve The Silence

By: swissmiss — June 2nd 2023 at 11:15

“Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.”
– Jorge Luis Borges

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Measure Time

By: swissmiss — June 1st 2023 at 12:46

“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.”
– Jorge Luis Borges

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Hopping Through Life on One Leg

By: swissmiss — May 22nd 2023 at 15:24

“It doesn’t matter how sensitive you are or how damn smart and educated you are, if you’re not both at the same time, if your heart and your brain aren’t connected, aren’t working together harmoniously, well, you’re just hopping through life on one leg. You may think you’re walking, you may think you’re running a damn marathon, but you’re only on a hop trip. The connections gotta be maintained.”
Tom Robbins

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A Smooth Hinge

By: swissmiss — May 16th 2023 at 11:15

“There is a door between the logical and intuitive worlds, and we must put a smooth hinge on it, and let it swing…”
– Lorna Crozier

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Tenderness Towards Yourself

By: swissmiss — May 15th 2023 at 11:15

“Developing tenderness towards yourself allows you to see both your problems and your potential accurately. You don’t feel that you have to ignore your problems or exaggerate your potential.”
– Chögyam Trungpa

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Become The Ocean

By: swissmiss — April 3rd 2023 at 21:06

“If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.”
Leonard Cohen

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Love is Everything Around You

By: swissmiss — March 27th 2023 at 20:03

Thank you, rainbowsalt.

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Addicted

By: swissmiss — March 27th 2023 at 19:57

“I was never addicted to one thing, I was addicted to filling a void within myself with things other than my own love.”
Yung Pueblo

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Kindness Scales

By: swissmiss — March 27th 2023 at 19:13

“It scales better than competitiveness, frustration, pettiness, regret, revenge, merit (whatever that means) or apathy. Kindness ratchets up. It leads to more kindness. It can create trust and openness and truth and enthusiasm and patience and possibility.

Kindness, in one word, is a business model, an approach to strangers and a platform for growth.It might take more effort than you were hoping it would, but it’s worth it.”

Seth Godin

Resurfacing this quote I posted in 2017. It’s so good.

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Disembodied Communication

By: swissmiss — March 23rd 2023 at 14:27

“The body is everywhere assaulted by all of our new media, a state which has resulted in deep disorientation of intellect and destabilization of culture throughout the world. In the age of disembodied communication, the meaning and significance and experience of the body is utterly transformed and distorted.”
Have I mentioned that I’ve been trying to figure out the Internet?”
– Eric McLuhan

Uranus, Eris, and the Riddle of the Internet, by Eric Francis Coppolino

(Thank you Tim)

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Not Knowing What To Do

By: swissmiss — March 23rd 2023 at 14:22

“Eventually we realize that not knowing what to do is just as real and just as useful as knowing what to do. Not knowing stops us from taking false directions. Not knowing what to do, we start to pay real attention.”
David Whyte

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