⚡️ Enlightening Bolts

🌎 Planetary scale vibe collapse: The death of liminal consciousness as the origin of human suffering. Read it here.​

🏛 Stoic Mental Health Tracker: Get your daily mental health tracker companion for mood tracking, journaling, meditations, and reflection. it analyses your emotive influences and gives you insights on how to be happier and more productive. Try it here.​

❤️‍🔥 Stoic Loving-Kindness Metta Meditation: In this complete Stoic loving-kindness meditation, we take a look at three important areas of compassion: love of people, love of humanity, and love of service. Then we go through each one, with the guidance of the ancient Stoics to increase our compassion and happiness. Listen here.​

🎇 Image of The Week

This image of a skeleton band is a taste of the prolific light artist, Darius Twin. It always amazes the depth of mastery one can attain especially inside of novel art forms that get less cultural airtime. Human beings possess such immense creativity!

🌳 A Living Purpose

Feel like there is an important distinction between an organic, embedded purpose vs. a manufactured, bolted-on purpose. Personal growth culture encourages the finding of one's purpose in a way that leads some to latch on to something inauthentic.

Thinking of vague notions of "I want to make an impact" and coaches coaching coaches coaching coaches. Reaching for a convenient idea of what one's purpose might be to feel the relief of having found it plus reap the imagined status gains.

Something like person-purpose fit. You can feel it when a person's purpose is kinda zip-tied to their identity. It feels rickety. Like it's not going to last. A purpose emerging from the broader tapestry of one's life and interfacing intimately with their immediate context...

That feels rock solid. Like it's woven into and coherent with a greater story and exuded/exhibited on scales of both days and years. This kind of purpose feels more resilient and alive.

Less concretely defined in some sense. More capable of morphing with the path and transmuting barriers along the way.

☀️ Invincible Summer

This sequence of words from Albert Camus is one of my favorites:

“My dear,In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love.In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile.In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm.I realized, through it all, that…In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.​Truly yours,Albert Camus”

🤓 Learn This Word

Moriturism: The sudden reminder that you will one day no longer occupy this earth

⏳ From The Archives

A hand-picked classic HighExistence article.

​The Psychedelic Emotion: Why We Need More “Awe” In Everyday Life​

I stood there with my toes in the sand gazing at the endless expanse of water.

I was a little boy and it was my first time seeing the ocean in person.

It gave me goosebumps. My jaw was left hanging wide open, stunned by what I was witnessing.

I was experiencing awe.

Awe is a profound self-transcendent feeling.

It is the wellspring of the mystical experiences through which religious traditions have emerged.

Keep reading this article and you might find yourself struck with awe before you finish.

I’m going to share an exercise with you that will help you tune into the awe-inspiring experiences all around you.

But before we dive, why is awe so important?

Astonishingly, we only began researching this emotion rigorously in 2003 and we are beginning to discover that awe carries with it powerful benefits that could help recenter a world off balance.

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