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Issue #24: It's a chaotic world. We're just living in it (for now)
Lore Oxfordloreoxford.substack.com
It has been my experience that rebelling against the forces of attachment within my own heart and mind has been the most revolutionary thing I’ve ever done. We are addicted to pleasure, in part because we confuse pleasure with happiness. We would all say that deep down, all we want is to be happy. Yet we don’t have a realistic understanding of what
... See moreJack Kornfield • The Buddha Is Still Teaching: Contemporary Buddhist Wisdom
It’s better that you live a week or two as a realized, free, totally serene, loving human being than 90 years in the mayhem of the ego.
Stuart Wilde • Infinite Self: 33 Steps to Reclaiming Your Inner Power
Let the flame of Definite Optimism burn away the Mimetic virus. Use the Internet to curate your environment, so you can be hyper-mimetic towards the rare few who are anti-mimetic. Copy the people who don’t copy people. Take risks. Build a differentiated skillset. Pursue timeless wisdom, not intellectual fashions. Be skeptical of convention, and don... See more
David Perell • Peter Thiel’s Religion
Fierce love and understanding will be the basis of a new story that binds us across culture and political leaning. It will not be the knowledge of the meta-modern intellectual who masturbates over their own ideas in public. It will not come from linguistic one-upmanship, or the cleverness of knowing how patterns now might lead to patterns in the fu... See more
Rebel Wisdom • A Story to Bind Us: The Intellectual Deep Web and a New Grand Narrative
I sense there is a shift happening where people are realizing that they are channeling an ambitious impulse - the desire to grow and evolve - into dumb goals. Rejecting legible ambitious might be the most ambitious thing you can do.... See more
A shift from legible ambition (my parents can easily brag about me) to illegible ambition (no one, including me know