Joseph Arcila

🇨🇴 Hispanic living in📍Kioto ⛩️

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opposites are identical in nature

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I realized I’d been living the opposite of the Tao—always chasing some far-off goal, calling it ambition, calling the strain perseverance, believing both were virtues

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@petergyang Actual vibes :p

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El español es el idioma del mestizaje.

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If it is not useful to others, it cannot come to grief

[Joseph Arcila @ArcilaJoseph]

What is present provides advantage, But what is absent provides use.

[Joseph Arcila @ArcilaJoseph]

Reading Taoist classics, I think Costa Rica is the most Taoist country now 🇨🇷

• No army since 1948
• "Pura vida" — "life is good, just flow." Used as hello, goodbye, thanks.
• Blue zones of longevity

Lao Tzu described this 2500 years ago. Costa Rica's been quietly living it.

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Humans across time, accessing this layer through altered states or contemplation, encounter the same forms because the forms are there. Not invented but discovered. Not projected but met.

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There may be a layer of mind—or reality—where pattern is primary. Where the deep forms that generate life and consciousness exist in something like archetypal purity.

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The serpent could be one of those forms. Not arbitrary, not culturally constructed, but something closer to a necessary shape—the way a sphere is the necessary shape for minimum surface tension.

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Altered states aren’t adding noise. They’re removing a constraint. What you see isn’t hallucination but more—layers normally screened out because they’re not useful for finding food or avoiding predators.

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framing direction as questions rather than commands, as offers rather than demands.

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@BorrachinhaMMA You forgot to put Israel

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@goddek The art of the deal mtfks!!

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A reminder from Atomic Habits:

New goals don't deliver new results. New lifestyles do. And a lifestyle is a process, not an outcome. For this reason, all of your energy should go into building better habits, not chasing better results.

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It's easier to fall in love with what you do than to find what you love

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@SprinterPress Where can I see the full videos with subtitles?

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actuar sin forzar

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La acción forzada agota y la acción alineada fluye

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Any attempt to channel the waters in the ocean back into isolated lakes and creeks is simply not possible

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Storms can overturn a pond, but never a sea