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Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.
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— Dylan Thomas

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The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
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— Kahlil Gibran

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In spirituality, the following law often seems to me to be verifiable: the more people cluck and chuckle, proclaim and fret over an experience, the more insignificant and/or fabricated it actually is.
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— Notes & Silence

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Good evening.

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Well-written does not equal interesting, appealing or enjoyable.

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Good morning.

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A life that makes a good story tends to be a life that was awful to live.
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— Joan Westenberg, Why I Quit ‘The Strive’

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Meaningful things

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Happen quietly

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Without fanfare or performance

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Acts away from the spotlight

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Of the ego or the crowd

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Deeds done

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Doer invisible

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…dopamine fires for the chase, not for the catch.
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— Joan Westenberg, Why I Quit ‘The Strive’

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Zen is the practice of simplicity and silence. This involves encountering difficulty and frequenting noise.
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— Notes & Silence

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Have spent much of the day tearing my arms and legs to shreds using only nature’s finest overgrown brambles and gorse while knee deep in a freezing stream.

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Get back to nature they said…

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Good evening.

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Good afternoon.

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Good morning.

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Good afternoon.

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Good evening.

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A weird sciatic-like pain has appeared lately running the length of my right leg. It‘s dull but strong, quite intense.

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What’s odd is that it only appears when I walk any kind of distance and at no other time, not even when I’m on a run.

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Pulled a muscle in my chest at some point too. Hurts to cough. It’s at...

thisness.one","summary":"","url":"https://thisness.one/post/2026-04-04-1","date_published":"2026-04-04T15:56:31+00:00","author":{"name":"Nick","url":"https://thisness.one","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F19%2F1311343.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"thisness"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-04 15:56","date_timestamp":1775318191,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rtvxm4mzybqqukvfxble5vqk/post/3miolx7kwc72r"]}},{"id":"87591530","content_html":"

Good afternoon.

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The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
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— Erich Fromm

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Good afternoon.

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There’s one main message being shared in ten thousand different guises: Who you are and where you are isn’t okay; you should be different and somewhere else. And this message always manipulates you through this sense of existential distress that makes you forever seek something else, and never allows you to be at peace with who and where you are right now.
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— Divine Lethargy

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Good morning.

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My first brush with Glen Baxter, who died last week.

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At a certain point what we want and what we don’t want dissolves into simply what happens.

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The specific qualities of experience pale in comparison to the simple presence of everything, the fact that anything is happening at all.

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Good afternoon.

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