#68: Just One Bridge of Dreams
#68: Just One Bridge of Dreams
#RareConnections #EarnedWisdom #SelfAuthorship #MitigateFear
👋 Welcome to this week's Pursuit. My name is Amir, and each week I go over 10 hours of content in pursuit of living a meaningful and fulfilling life. I'm grateful to share my findings with you and hope I can make a small difference during your challenging times. If you're on a quest for depth in an era of superficial abundance, make sure to subscribe and join our journey.
This week’s discovery:
💞 I Hope You Never Settle for Less
✨ The Quiet Pursuit of Wisdom
🌉 Just One Bring of Dreams
🙀 Expectations and Ruminations: The Fear Inside Us
🍿 A Documentary I’m Watching
🗒️ A Quote I'm Pondering On
🎵 Music I'm Listening To
💞 I Hope You Never Settle for Less
When you’re young, you believe that there will be many people with whom you’ll connect with deeply. Later in life, you come to realize that it only happens a few times. A few moments, frozen in genuine beauty, where you look at someone and you know, from a place deep within yourself, that they are going to mean something to you, that they are rare. If you have found human beings like this, I hope you protect them. I hope you risk your heart for what you feel. I hope you believe that you are worthy of something full, and pointed and real. I hope you never settle for less, because certain people are truly just rare, beautiful drops of borrowed light that find their way to you. You don't feel alien with them. The otherness never arrives. There isn't a version of yourself you have to shed in order to feel connected to them. They see you clearly. You are held there. You are chosen there. Love becomes a safe place to rest your head. A place without artifice, or armour. There are no hiding spots. Everything is unguarded, and unvarnished, and there is freedom in that kind of openness, in that kind of vulnerability.
✨ The Quiet Pursuit of Wisdom
The importance of the journey in acquiring wisdom is often overlooked. Wisdom isn't a commodity to be picked off a shelf, or gleaned from social media quotes. It's a deep, transformative process, which requires a framework to hold and make sense of the knowledge acquired. In an era marked by an oversupply of insights, the ability to discern true wisdom is crucial. Wisdom often defies popular notions of spirituality, it's rooted in reality and unfolds over time. It doesn't seek validation or the limelight. Authentic wisdom is often hidden from the untrained eye, and may be inversely proportional to the amount one claims to know. It's a cautionary reminder - if you find yourself trying to prove, to show, to dazzle with your wisdom, you might be straying from the path. True wisdom is not about the robes, the feathers, or the trinkets, but what you've earned and understood, often invisible to the casual observer.
🌉 Just One Bridge of Dreams
I am the person in charge of steering this reality closer to the one I want to inhabit. I am the steward of myself. This sense of aloneness is beautiful, agentic, and sometimes terrifying. We all contain the capacity for self authorship, but that requires a trust and belief in your own perspective. The artist mindset: what you make is valuable intrinsically to you and contains unspeakable beauty. There's an ancient saying in Japan, that life is like walking from one side of infinite darkness to another, on a bridge of dreams. They say that we're all crossing the bridge of dreams together**.** That there's nothing more than that. Just us, on the bridge of dreams.
🙀 Expectations and Ruminations: The Fear Inside Us
Fear is the first emotion that strikes us, and life is about continuously navigating the residue of that impact. Much of what we do in our day-to-day lives is to mitigate fear, mostly as a means to reduce uncertainty. We set up to-do lists so we can approach tomorrow with intention. We build habits so we can anchor our attention in an ocean of chaos. This is our attempt to ground ourselves in something reliable; something we can predict that gives us a sense of calm. The problem, however, is that anytime we look to the future or revisit the past, we reintroduce fear. When using the future as your lens, fear takes the form of expectations. When using the past as your lens, fear takes the form of rumination. Fear is the result of hoping for a particular view of the future, or comparing yourself to a particular version of the past.
🍿 A Documentary I’m Watching
It's been a while since I watched such a brilliant documentary. "Arnold" is a testament to Schwarzenegger's legendary career, highlighting his ambition, vision, and resilience. It provides an insightful look into how maintaining a beginner's mindset and overcoming obstacles can lead to unparalleled success. What resonated with me the most is his life motto: "Just be busy, be useful, and move forward." He truly is an inspiring human being.
🗒️ A Quote I'm Pondering On
Relationships are like weighing scales. You either bring your partner up, or weigh them down. The hope is that you are both evenly weighted enough of the time to balance the scales.
🎵 Music I'm Listening To
You’ll find mostly Ethnotronica, Organic House, World, Disco, and Organic Electronic here:
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🌒 Pano: Danceable and electronic obscure songs
🌓 Sisy: Ethnotronica and organic house
🌑 Berghain: Dark, minimal techno and tech house
🌕 Heide: Groovy soul and disco house
🌞 Sonntag: Afterhours shit
🌎 World: From Latin jazz to Turkish psych
🌚 Super Slow: For your intimate moments
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