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"We communicate so compulsively, so excessively, because we are lonely and empty. But hypercommunication is not fulfilling. Because it lacks the presence of the other, it only deepens the loneliness." –Byung-Chul Han (Non-things)
#DigitalAwareness #digitalculture #smartphones #ByungChulHan #deepreads #bookstodon
"Building an empire requires a ruler. Building a community requires a unified pulse. One is rigid; the other is mycelial." –Dariana
An organization in my town called Food Not Bombs is hosting a gofund me for a community member named Mario. He moved to Ithaca from Guatemala, and he recently lost his home in a fire. If you have the ability to donate or to spread the word, that would be great!
Donate or share link here:
https://gofund.me/f33dd6b85
From the book Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
#humanconnection #love #community #WordsofWisdom #bookstodon #ReadingCommunity #RupiKaur
"We are obsessed not with things but with information and data. We now consume more information than things. We are literally becoming intoxicated with communication."
–Byung-Chul Han (From the book Non-things)
#bookstodon #ReadingCommunity #digitalminimalism #technics #informationoverload #digitalminimalism #slowliving #quietlife
"No sentient being should have to prove how useful they are in order for us to treat them gently." –Mari Andrew
"Flourishing is not just about the individual subjective experience, which is important, we don't cut that out. But it's also about how are you contributing to creating the conditions for flourishing for others. So the metaphor is not the isolated flower in the pot, as beautiful as that might be, but the forest, where under the ground the roots are sharing resources. Where our sense of flourishing is enhanced when we see that we're flourishing with others and creating the conditions for others to flourish. And so we start to see the whole person within a beloved community, and then that beloved community is connected to other communities, and we can start to see an ecosystem emerging. And that ecosystem, of course, includes the natural world, but also the social and political and economic world, and also a sacred ecosystem." –Matt Lee
https://www.nosmallendeavor.com/matt-lee-why-you-cant-flourish-alone
Kia whakatōmuri te haere whakamua‘I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on my past’
Creative Plus Business (creativeplusbusiness.com)
Māori, for instance, do not place the present at the centre; as some researchers put it, ‘there is no centre’.
The Conversation (theconversation.com)
Three good things I've been thinking about:
1. Sometimes I am grateful, and sometimes I am not. I am finally learning that both parts are allowed to exist.
2. Yesterday was a "green" day. I listened to stories, I learned, and I felt the pulse of my community.
3. I sat by a waterfall with a friend and shared the literal pages of this book—the project I hope to publish someday. She told me the words were healing and inspiring. Her encouragement gave me the fuel to keep going. We are helping each other process the weight of being human, one page at a time.
#community #friendship #gratitude #ingratitude #mentalhealth #threegoodthings #3GoodThingsToday #3goodthings
The Nonstick Soul
Like a nonstick pan,
This positivity doesn't always stick.
I don’t think it’s supposed to.
Sometimes the darkness seeps in
To remind me that without it, the light is invisible.
One does not negate the other;
They are a conversation.
A complement.
A contrast that creates the image.
It isn't good or bad.
It isn’t a war of Dark versus Light.
It is simply day becoming night,
And night becoming day.
A natural occurrence taking place.
This is life.
This is death.
This
Is.
Sharing to see what other people think.
In today's meditation, these questions were asked:
Who am I without referring to a thought to tell me who I am?
Can I sustain not defining myself for a few moments? And simply be?
Just rest in the light of being
rather than the idea of being.
