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How to fulfill your dream of escape
What do we do when there is no "outside" to escape to?
A collection · read in any order
Holding two things at once
Pieces about doubt, ambivalence and contradiction, and about staying open when the pull is to pick a side. Read them when certainty feels too tidy.
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You Might Be Right
A Catholic investment banker takes a match to his beliefs, reads a thousand books, chants to Shiva, and keeps the one thing he almost knows.
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Doubt is not the problem. Premature certainty is.
How uncertainty, friction and relational tension become conditions for learning and transformation.
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In defense of woo-woo
We tend to treat beliefs as simple reflections of reality, yet power often proves to be the measure of truth.
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Balancing Perspectives
Sometimes the path between naivete and nihilism can feel razor thin, but a rich world awaits in the tension between ignorance and imagination.
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Comfort in Contradiction
When we pause our efforts to sever the "bad" from the "good", a whole world of beautiful paradoxes can begin to unfold.
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Becoming Centred
Before we can meet in the middle, we'll need to agree on where that is.
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For Everyone Whose Mind Can’t Settle
While some may fear a lack of certainty, a life without questions can be just as unsettling.
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Obsession & Process: How Philosophy Helps Me Deal with OCD
This essay chronicles my experience with OCD through a philosophical lens, and examines how “Process Philosophy” may offer a means of thinking one’s way out of overthinking.
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The Art of Ambivalence: Finding Strength in Contradiction
How embracing ambivalence can lead to strength in contradiction and growth as a grokkist.