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the somewhat undefinable, unstable feeling of realness, wherever it lays and however it can be expressed these days

Kyle Chayka • Two months til Filterworld / a new project

A. H. Almaas, the revered spiritual teacher and founder of the Diamond Approach, in his seminal work Essence (1986),

Barbara Marx Hubbard • Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence

K-HOLE and Box1824 captured the new landscape in their breakthrough 2014 report “Youth Mode.” They described an era of “mass indie” where the search for meaning is premised on differentiation and uniqueness, and proposed a solution in “Normcore.” Humorously, nearly everyone mistook Normcore for being about bland fashion choices rather than the grea... See more

subpixel space • After Authenticity

Complete presence melts self-consciousness and self-doubt away. It lets us stand in our true essence without the need for approval or validation. When we are fully present, our awareness is glued to the moment. The complexity of our inner world is collapsed into one point of awareness. This lets us express ourselves fully.

Isabel Hazan • distillation

When we are real rather than nice, when we choose self-expression over self-indulgence, when we choose growth over the need to belong, and when we choose fluidity over rigidity, we begin to understand the deeper dynamics of truthfulness, and we begin to taste the freedom and goodness of this jewel.

Deborah Adele • The Yamas & Niyamas: Exploring Yoga's Ethical Practice

Isness might be a better word than being, because there is something happening.

Chogyam Trungpa • True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art

Ness - Epilogue

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i see it dripping all over me

covered in transparent yellow

sweet like mango

sticky like an addiction

the sugar rush it gives

they smell it from miles

they come over me.

finding me through my shedding skin

a flying chameleon of emotions glued with wings i made myself.

transmuted into a be. ing of person.

they used to hate bees

cause they are all women

but now

trying with mindfulness to stay more at contact, we find that it is actually a delightful way of being. Lighter, more easeful, less burdened by the complexities of papañca, we also enjoy the vivid brightness of the present moment, the beauty of ‘nowness’, and the relative spaciousness of less self-building.