spirituality

“To be entirely trapped in mental labels we’ve given to everything is a dreadful limitation.

Everything is absolutely miraculous and mysterious, and when you put a label on it, you think you know what it is — but you don’t, it’s just a mental label.”

— Eckhart Tolle

It’s concepts all the way down! https://media.tenor.com/P68E6A48a5kAAAAC/turtles-all

🔭🔎 scouting near and far :: thought follower

Much higher ROI in examining and reducing the existing stories than to layer more on top

"Story" is just gentle-coded "psyop" methinks

I think along these lines whenever I hear folks double down on the importance of storytelling and find myself going the other way

Understanding this, I think it's amazing how entire interactions can be built on the labels we have for one another. Labels distance us or restrict the relationships we might have.

Labels made me comfortable and kept me from intentionally getting to know the people I thought I knew. But we evolve constantly and by depending on the labels, I stopped working to get to know someone. It created distance.