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🌀🐇 #110 make life transcendent, self expansion, facing infinity
⚡️ Enlightening Bolts
🙏 How To Make Your Life More Transcendent: Even if you’re not religious. Read it here.
✅ Monthly Self Expansion Project:Every month, pick something you hate or know nothing about, and get to know it well. Spend a few hours per week, for an entire month, just learning about that subject. Read more here.
🎥 Stutz: Meet Jonah Hill’s friend and therapist, Phil Stutz. This film invites you to explore Dr. Stutz’s Tools for life in an effort to get real, get personal, and get better. Watch the trailer here.
🎇 Image of The Week
"These images were produced using sumac syrup along with reishi spores, providing liquid and particulate cymatics. The frequencies used were 17.125Hz, 15.66Hz, 11.55Hz and 18.22Hz all with a 2.5inch circular dish. All colors are entirely natural; the red/black is from the reishi and sumac with the reishi spores, the yellows and blues are from the LED ring light, and all other colors are from the honey in the sumac syrup causing a prismatic refraction of the light at the surface of the liquid." See more here.
✍🏼 Embrace The Spontaneous
A small nudge for you today to entertain some of the random opportunities that float into your life.
Use routine to your benefit but do not so strictly comply with ingrained rhythms that you miss out on the riveting, unbridled aliveness that's experienced in the unexpected.
Allow yourself to step into the little doorways of possibility of the beaten path of your everyday behaviors. See what unfolds.
That is where the positive plot twists and wormholes into wonder reside.
Give yourself the gift of the spontaneous.
️ ♾ Facing Infinity Without Flinching
Ponder these words from Don Juan Matus:
"The only alternative left for humankind is discipline. Discipline is the only deterrent. But by discipline | don't mean harsh routines. I don't mean waking up every morning at five-thirty and throwing cold water on yourself until you're blue. Sorcerers understand discipline as the capacity to face with serenity odds that are not included in our expectations. For them, discipline is an art: the art of facing infinity without flinching, not because they are strong and tough but because they are filled with awe.”
🤓 Learn This Word
Paraprosdokian: a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence, phrase, or larger discourse is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part.
⏳ From The Archives
A hand-picked classic HighExistence article.
Charlie Kaufman has one of the most inventive and original minds in Hollywood. That’s probably why he has eluded mainstream success.
Mr. Kaufman is perhaps best known for writing the modern classic Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, for which he was awarded an Oscar for best original screenplay. He’s also the writer of Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Anomalisa, and the writer-director of the little-known but brilliant Synecdoche, New York, which Roger Ebert named the “best film of the decade” (2000-2010).
In the words of fellow writer Jeremy Brock:
One of the few screenwriters to transcend his profession, Charlie Kaufman is responsible for some of the most unique, daring, and inventive screenplays in contemporary cinema. […] His films deal with identity, mortality, relationships, and the meaning or purpose of life. They are metaphysical, self-reflexive, hyper-aware, often using surrealist conceits to explore our fundamental anxieties. It is in this tradition of finding new, startling, and funny ways of exploring human psychology that Charlie Kaufman sits comfortably amongst the world’s greatest living writers.
Fans love him. Critics adore him. Mainstream audiences… ignore him.
And that’s a shame.
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