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How to Not Know
02:03
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How To Not Know
How To Not Know
How To Not Know
How To Not Know
Question your motivations. Weigh all options repeatedly and simultaneously.
Question your motivations. Weigh all options repeatedly and simultaneously.
Cultivate doubt, question your choices or possible choices until you become paralyzed.
How To Not Know
How To Not Know
How To Not Know
How To Not Know
How To Not Know
How To Not Know
How To Not Know
How To Not Know
It is critical in this moment not to panic.
It is critical in this moment not to panic not to panic.
It is critical in this moment not to panic.
It is critical in this moment not to panic not to panic.
It is critical in this moment not to panic.
It is critical in this moment not to panic.
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the way of the cat
11:10
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It’s not about eliminating options
or living in a vacuum
or zen or whatever
and it’s definitely not about doing nothing
I think it’s about not adding value
or not adding meaning
or not adding expectation.
And definitely not about feeling any less.
Or detachment or any of that shit
i want to cry and hurt and be wrong and fail miserably
and be furious like fucking irate
and be happy and ecstatic and overwhelmed with love and present
but not not plan
or only live in the moment
it’s giving space to your own emotions
thoughts
intuitions
and learning to hear and trust what the body tells you
and leaning into
but not overindulging
or letting it send you over a cliff
but also sometimes yes
so it’s definitely not about being in control
it’s about feeling comfortable with not knowing
and responding to the unknown
waiting
and moving only when you really need to
The way of the cat.
Loving being still.
Knowing when to pounce
feeling when the moment is right
and being ok with missing out sometimes
it’s navigating chaos
and learning to love living with doubt.
And definitely doing things for the sheer pleasure of indulging curiosity
PROCRASTINATION
DOESN'T EXIST
PRODUCTIVITY
IS A LIE
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Guide to Nothingness
02:48
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Step 1: Do Not Know what you want.
Step 2: Impulsively explore all available options.
Step 3: Resist the urge to dive in headfirst. Make no real choices, unless absolutely necessary, ie life or death situations, risk of personal harm or when it really doesn’t matter.
Step 4: Do Nothing. Indulge laziness. Enjoy boredom. Surround yourself with inertia.
Step 5: Become restless.
Step 6: Do something you’ve been meaning / hoping / wanting to do, not because you should but because you feel like it.
OR
Become bored again until you become restless, but do nothing. Continue this cycle until you become motivated enough to do something to change this state of purgatory. But do not run away. Respect the need for nothingness.
Step 7: Do something. This may or may not have to do with the choices or questions that have brought you into this cycle to begin with.
Step 8: Do something else. Ride the wave of momentum.
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i am a lizard
02:34
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I am a lizard
I am a lizard
I am a lizard
Scampering from one adventure to the next,
the lizard occasionally is trapped by its own designs
and must leave a piece of itself behind.
I am a lizard
I am a lizard.
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Shock
03:30
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In the shock of finding that one’s hopes and ideals
have become completely unhinged from reality
or current state of affairs,
it is critical to take a step back
and review the manifold layers
that led to this divergence.
Hard recalibration.
Willful emotions, larger personal contexts, unfulfilled desires,
can drive one’s thoughts down irrational paths,
which while also educational and illuminating
can lead to painful disappointments
and dark dead ends.
In order to exit these points in a meaningful way,
it is crucial to parse the specific ideals of a particular situation
from attached larger meanings
and relieve them of this additional baggage.
The mind must be confronted with the stark reality and incompatibility of its current state;
this can lead to a build up of tension, anxiety, anger, sadness, incomprehension.
Suitable means of relieving these sensations include:
[crying, bawling, sniveling, whimpering, staring blankly into space, wailing, moaning, sighing, weeping.]
Thereafter one must continue the process of mourning lost ideals and reinventing one’s mindset.
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One must occasionally
Crash headfirst
In broad daylight
At the peril of humiliation and shame
At the peril of humiliation and shame
Eyes wide open
Arms spread like wings
One must occasionally
Crash headfirst
In broad daylight
At the peril of humiliation and shame
At the peril of humiliation and shame
Eyes wide open
Arms spread like wings
Examine the impact
Enjoy the burn
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the body knows
03:12
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The body knows
Speaks a mysterious silent language
One that is felt through its endless networks
Of blood and flesh and bones
One that subverts the conscious mind
And to listen carefully
Is to create space
To idle and linger
To feel and understand in the bones
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How to be Dead Wrong
06:45
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Begin by fundamentally mistaking one thing for another.
Then, cautiously, piece by piece,
Coagulate your many desires and hopes
with the small gestures.
That is to say,
attach meaning to otherwise meaningless and insignificant acts,
experiences,
moments,
details,
signs,
this in place of listening
to nagging suspicions
that something is going
horribly wrong.
Fuse these elements with heart and mind
until they become an inseparable whole.
Nurture this ragtag, unholy conglomeration
until it begins to grow out of control.
As one’s needs can never be fulfilled
by the acts one’s desires have become attached to,
this will eventually become
an unwieldy heaving mess.
Despite your better instincts,
continue to cherish
this knotted, rowdy, unbearable creation
as it becomes larger
than you can contain
within your own little heart.
Like an ungrateful parasite,
it bursts out from within you,
laying waste to your insides
revealing its terrible misguided form.
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recalibration
02:49
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Hard recalibration
Hard recalibration
Hard recalibration
Weeping
Hard recalibration
Hard recalibration
Hard recalibration
Wailing
Hard recalibration
Hard recalibration
Hard recalibration
Outrage
Hard recalibration
Hard recalibration
Hard recalibration
Sadness
Hard recalibration
Hard recalibration
Hard recalibration
Mourning
Hard recalibration
Hard recalibration
Hard recalibration
Hard recalibration
Cultivate chaos
Cultivate chaos
Cultivate chaos
Cultivate chaos
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i am a marsupial
02:27
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I am a marsupial
One after another I bear a tiny speck of an idea
so raw and half formed
it’s blind and hairless and semi-transparent.
It crawls into my belly where no one can see
and feeds and grows in the dark.
Later poking its fragile head out
once in a while to taste the air
until one day it rolls out of my belly
fully formed and nimble.
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11. |
your loving morgue
05:36
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we grow the seed
nurse the sapling
water the tree
And sometimes we crush it
I am a robust vessel
I am your ecosystem
A warm embrace
Your loving morgue
I am soft and elastic
Not firm not rigid
Where some things are dying, while some things are growing
an acrobatic feat
An exploratory cautious pulsing
I am a robust vessel
I am your ecosystem
A warm embrace
Your loving morgue
I am a robust vessel
I am your ecosystem
A warm embrace
Your loving morgue
And sometimes it all falls apart
Sometimes it all collapses
And suddenly there is a bloating a vacuum an empty space
A miraculous nebula of unknowing
THE ART OF DOING NOTHING
IS CONSTANTLY BECOMING
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