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Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
There is a crack in everything
that’s how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen I think about this line and song a lot whenever I work on kintsugi. Sometimes we have to create the cracks in ourselves, our life, our thoughts, our feelings, our beliefs, to let any sort of light in. And while many elements of life can seem stressful,…
Purposelessness of life
Just a thing I’ve been thinking about lately. People often seek the meaning or purpose of life, and, aside from creating more life and continuing to live, I’ve never been able to figure out a definite one. Is there a purpose of my life? Sometimes there definitely is. Sometimes it is a little hard to…
The importance of self compassion in an imperfect world
I’ve been reading and listening to a lot of Seth Godin lately, and today’s post is just stealing his ideas in the hopes that someone else sees them and can use them because I know I can use them. Seeking perfection in any sort of work that you do is frequently considered neurotic, but then…
Hilarious imperfections
Well, today I managed to accomplish none of the things I had planned, and that is completely ok. One of the reasons that I love kintsugi and wabisabi ideas is the acceptance and embrace of imperfection. I, and a lot of people that I know, and a lot of people that I don’t know exactly,…
Beginnings. . .
I started this website and business nearly a year ago, and have made hilariously little progress. Part of that is just life and the demands of my day job, but a bigger part of it was ignorance of what I wanted to do and how to do it. Luckily, I have made some progress with…
Sometimes the horse throws you hard
I knew that I hadn’t written anything for a couple of weeks, but I didn’t realize it had been five. Life has been extremely busy, but really rewarding lately, so I’m not going to worry about it. But, this is a practice that I would like to pick back up and see where it can…
David Wong/Jason Pargin kicks ass
So this wasn’t what i intended to write about today, or, um, yesterday. I think I missed yesterday. Either way though, I ran across this earlier today in an internet search about a book that I’m rereading, and, now, when I’m about to finish the book and go to sleep, finally actually hit the quote.…
Everything is already broken
That was a line from a facebook post about kintsugi that I saw earlier today, and it is also the best explanation of wabisabi and kintsugi and life that I can imagine. How I found that post is itself an interesting story about broken things. It was shared by a friend, that I have never…
Evaluation of imperfection
Today has been quite a good day, aside from the weather, and quite a productive day as well. However, that productivity in other areas has quite hindered my ability to write anything very coherent, let alone insightful. But, my realization of that, in my opinion, lends both beauty and strength to my life. I can…
Ah, Garfield
It is pretty difficult to argue that Mondays are not imperfect days. But they can also be beautiful days. Today has not been a physically beautiful day at all. Yesterday, I was wearing shorts and sitting outside to read. Tonight should be the first frost. And, since it was Monday, I had to put on…
