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Many centers of meaning making, not just mind

Many of us have never stopped to consider how many ways we’re already “making sense” of the world.

The False Idol Killer

AI dethrones our idols not by failing but by succeeding

Responsibility Symmetry

Responsibility Symmetry 👐

..."Allowing” versus "Expressing"…

Relateful Practice Nuances

Surrender is a Way of Collaborating with Fate

Surrender is a way of collaborating with fate to make its (retro)causality more likely to influence the present effect. Which ends up feeling really good.

Warm take—”enlightenment” and ethics are independent 🕉️

Warm take—”enlightenment” and ethics are independent 🕉️These quick takes are part of “Daily Relatefulness” — subscribe for contemplative inspiration in your inbox, everydaPhoto by Jeremy Thomas on Unsplash

Toddler parallels: Creating our own suffering

Yesterday morning Jack was playing while Cecilia ate her eggs.

Projective harmonization

Fellow Relateful facilitators Josefine, Blake, and I playfully coined the term “projective harmonization” — when what you’re feeling in relationship with others is secretly what they’re feeling in relationship with you.

“Beyond Islam and unbelief…”

“Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing / There is a field.

KPop Demon hunters

I loved the animated Netflix movie KPop Demon Hunters. It’s a tear-jerker—even just listening to the climax song in my car last night brought some eye wetness. And somehow the premise, despite being totally absurd, not only works; it feels relevant to the world we inhabit today. The temptation is to do a “Takedown” of all that we don’t like, maintaining our “golden” ego (which brilliantly includes