Consistently approach the universe

Last updated Aug 15, 2023

• Source: Venkatesh Rao; Sources/Breaking Smart - Newsletter
• Keywords: Cards/permanent notes
  • #advice #philosophy #life
• Relevant Notes:
  • Cards/Salve corpus amanti
  • Cards/God is an artist
  • Cards/Calling isn’t chosen it’s discovered
  • Cards/Absolute Certainty versus Wonder

• If you want to live richly, you must be willing to ==open yourself to the universe, and the experiences that it offers.==
  • We build technology for the sake of accessing these experiences.
  • Challenge: to keep rediscovering what we consider sacred in new ways

==To live richly is to trust your soul to the universe at large, and the experiences it offers that we build technology to access more of.== The opposite of keeping your soul in a known safe space is constantly looking for signs of it in the ==stream of experiences that constitute life itself,== and ==digital life== is a particularly rich new part of that stream. Our challenge is not to keep returning to a sense of the sacred in the same predictable place, but to ==keep rediscovering that predictable sense of the sacred in new places.==

• The only way to enrich your soul is to consistently approach the universe instead of retreating from it
  • Cards/Waldenponding is the opposite of this; if we stay safe, nothinng will happen to us

if you ==consistently approach rather than retreat from the universe,== soul-enriching stuff will dominate.

If you waldenpond…then nothing will happen