Julia

Making sense of things, occasionally making fun of them
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[Julia @platulia]

Favorite part of the city at my favorite hour ♥️🌆

[Julia @platulia]

@ShekharSeeker 😭

[Julia @platulia]

The true compliment brightens the giver even more than the recipient

[Julia @platulia]

Like the coronavirus

[Julia @platulia]

The Jensen Huang affair is Asian on white crime

[Julia @platulia]

@maenadraving Yes. "IN love" implies being INSIDE of something shared. Not on the outside knocking, looking in

[𝔊𝔯á𝔦𝔫𝔫𝔢 🕊️☘️ @GrainneMcD92925]

“There are three traps of Satan that steal joy and peace: Regretting about the past, fear for the future, and ingratitude for the present.”

St. Anthony the Great 🕊️

[Rakesh Gupta @guptanrr]

@foster_type Wife: So was she hot?
Foster: Gonna take the 5th on this one hun.

[𝔇𝔞𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔩 𝚟𝚜 𝔅𝔞𝔟𝔶𝔩𝔬𝔫 @DanielvsBabylon]

God waited until Noah finished his ark to flood the world. God was fed up, and waited +100 years because one man found favor in God’s eyes. Meaning He put up with 100 more years of the worst humanity has ever produced because of one guy. God is faithful.

[Andrew Yeung @andruyeung]

Things that feel cringe (until they start working):

- Posting on LinkedIn (until a stranger DMs you with a life changing opportunity)
- Cold DMs (until one turns into your biggest client)
- Filming yourself in public (until the video gets a million views)
- Hosting your first event (until 100 people show up)
- Speaking on stage (until someone tells you your talk changed their mind)
- Starting a newsletter (until it pays your rent)
- Introducing yourself to strangers (until one becomes your cofounder)
- Asking for referrals (until half your business comes from them)
- Pitching your friends on your startup (until one of them invests)
- Asking for a raise (until you get it)

Cringe is the entry price (most people never pay it)

[Julia @platulia]

@Thomasdelvasto_ 💛
https://t.co/rfkMPOpD0k

[Julia @platulia]

The only way to truly see something is with your heart.

[Julia @platulia]

There are cathedrals everywhere for those with the hearts to see

[Julia @platulia]

*I'm not straw-manning you. YOU are the straw man.

[Julia @platulia]

Ad hominem is my favorite logical fallacy.
Your argument is an extension of YOU.
YOU are the straw man.

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

Today, after seven years of work, The Law of the Sublime is out in the world.

When I started this book, I had an ambitious plan. I would go down the Amazon, find chimpanzees in the wilds of Africa, and cross the Gobi Desert, then write about those experiences of awe.

Then, on a hot August afternoon in 2018, I had a stroke while driving in Los Angeles. A blood clot cut off oxygen to my brain, and within seconds I lost consciousness. When I woke up in the hospital, I learned how close I had come to the point of no return. My left hand was frozen into a claw, and I could barely feel my left leg, but something strange happened.

On the ambulance ride home, I looked out at the people on the street, and for a moment I felt I could be inside their bodies and hear their thoughts. It was marvelous and weird, and I knew it was time to write this book.

I couldn't type, so I wrote every page by hand, dictated it, printed it out, and edited it all over again. I couldn't take the long hikes that had carried me through my six previous books. Then one afternoon I woke from a nap in my backyard to find a grasshopper inches from my face, and I understood that this small backyard would have to be my Amazon jungle. The lizards, the hummingbirds, the insects became my teachers.

My limits turned out to be a blessing. They forced me to find the Sublime in the simplest things, and that is what this book is about.

Most of us live inside a circle: an everyday consciousness shaped by culture, convention, and, more and more, technology. That circle keeps shrinking, and we grow bored and restless. Just outside it is the Sublime, a realm that is frightening and exciting at once, pulling us out of our comfort zones and opening us to a much wider reality. The book maps 12 points outside that circle, and each one is a different face of the Sublime.

Inside, you'll find stories of near-death encounters, astonishing discoveries, and radical changes of consciousness, along with exercises and meditations so you can feel the Sublime yourself, not just read about it.

The Sublime doesn't require travel or exotic adventures. It only requires a new pair of eyes for the reality all around you.

​The Law of the Sublime is available now in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook.

Thank you for your support of my work. I hope you enjoy reading this book, and I look forward to hearing your feedback.

With gratitude,
Robert Greene

[Julia @platulia]

@Thomasdelvasto_

[Arc 🦃 @arcgustine]

Honestly if they sent a honeypot after me she’d probably fall in love with me and betray China

[la vida es linda hermano @yilmaz_klvn]

“ Bir insana aşık olmak ” diyor Gilles Deleuze “ onu kalabalığın içinden çekip çıkarmak, çokluğun içinde tek kılmak ve sonra aynı hızla teklik içindeki çokluğu keşfetmektir. ”

[Julia @platulia]

Realized that this is essentially my answer whenever someone asks me why I’m still single:

[Helen @anomalie_blue]

To make it through life as an authentic person, you will need boundaries of steel and also the willpower of 10million stallions.

[Julia @platulia]

@JusticeFor_Dc @hollowearthterf I’m not narcissistic, I’m not mid, and I’m not a “foid.”
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