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This book is a guide, a companion, and a love letter. … It’s about holding space for your experiences while also holding space for something new to unfold.
—Lisa Olivera, Already Enough: A Path to Self-Acceptance
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I will make a bald assertion: bacteria (or any living system, for that matter) can be agents because they are cognitive beings. Now, before going any further, I need to insert two disclaimers. The first is that I am using “cognition” in the broadest possible sense I can get away with… The second is that I am distinguishing cognition sharply from consciousness.
—Scott Turner, Purpose & Desire
#agency #cognition

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”The irony is the rest of the world lends us the money to fight the wars that much of the rest of the world wishes we didn’t fight. But they are complicit. That’s what a global economy is. That’s how it works.” —Richard Wolff #usa #wars #economy

” We are building lives strong enough to hold the work. Lives that don’t collapse when the work is not received.” —Michelle Dowd, Let them be uncomfortable #art #artists

The universe is a shimmering web of complexity that continually births and nurtures life, tempting us to believe that life might even be its central purpose and most fundamental expression.
—Neil Theise, Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being
#universe #complexity #life

A root belief is the central belief that informs how we feel about ourselves and the world. It is from this root belief that our sense of self, our stories about who we are, and our way of being in the world are formed. What grows from it looks different for each of us… Everything grows from the root: when the root is harsh or critical, flourishing is difficult. … This is why examining our stories is so critical. … From there, we get to start choosing what we water and what we let die. —Lisa Olivera, Already Enough: A Path to Self-Acceptance #selfacceptance #selfexploration

…agency seems to be a very large part of what living systems do, and agency seems to extend even down to life at its infinitesimal scale.
—Scott Turner, Purpose & Desire
#agency #life

The path to a coherent theory of life, and hence a coherent theory of evolution, …depends upon there being a coherent theory of adaptation. … Adaptation in the physiological sense is really a phenomenon of cognition, striving, and desire. Living systems have to be aware of their surroundings, to be aware of what they are, and to strive…to a particular state. —Scott Turner, Purpose & Desire

”…the long-term historical process is definitely one of taking away from the dollar its global role.” —Richard Wolff #usa #dollar

”I think what we are living through, you, me, our generation now, is the very unhappy, unpleasant, scary experience of a declining empire, which the Americans have never had. Our empire, over the last century, was nicely upward. Not for everybody, of course, but for enough of them to give it the quality of an upswing.” —Richard Wolff #usa

Nothing in the universe is more complex than life.
—Neil Theise, Notes on Complexity
#complexity #life

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“…wherever capitalism settles in as the basic economic system, we have a downturn on average every four to seven years. It’s an average, so sometimes it’s shorter, sometimes it’s longer. And each downturn has its unique qualities and paces and all of that. But it is a pattern that we have tried for three centuries to overcome and we haven’t done that.” —Richard Wolff #capitalism

Without realizing it, I formed what would grow into a deeply held belief: I was not enough as I was. Something was wrong with me. … This story wasn’t true, but it made sense of an experience that deeply confused me. It allowed me to move forward with a sense of control over an experience I had no say in.
—Lisa Olivera, Already Enough: A Path to Self-Acceptance

“You cannot allow the development of a world economy that ties everybody together without the participation of the mass of people, as if this could be left to the private interests of literally a few thousand corporations who are making decisions based on what’s best for them, granted. But the notion that what’s best for them is what we all need is being blown apart by today’s headlines.” —Richard Wolff #corporations

”Art is not only the finished object. It is the way you move through the world, and stay awake to it.” —Michelle Dowd, Let them be uncomfortable #art

Throughout this book, I am going to share with you many of the mindsets and practices that have supported me and others on this healing journey in three parts… Getting honest is about confronting and exploring our beliefs and the stories that grow from them… Getting brave is about doing the courageous work of uprooting the stories holding us back… Getting free is about carrying our new stories forward. —Lisa Olivera, Already Enough: A Path to Self-Acceptance #book

”…we sure live in a country that practices what my wife, who is a psychotherapist, massive denial. … You start the denial, you can’t believe it, you don’t want to believe it, you decide not to believe it and then you make a lot of mistakes that drive the point home because they accelerate the decline.” —Richard Wolff #usa

Started reading The Black Butterfly: An Invitation to Radical Aliveness by Richard Moss #books

”Let us not allow our souls to be harvested and sold back to us on Altman’s intelligence meter. This is not a call to refuse what human evolution has always been about. It is a call to refuse Big Tech’s extractive and exploitative power grab and attempt at cognitive enclosure, and to reject the reduction of human minds to a manufacturable commodity.”
—Matthew Segall, Artificial Intelligence as Cognitive Enclosure
#ai #artificialintelligence #bigtech #openai #altman
https://footnotes2plato.substack.com/p/artificial-intelligence-as-cognitive

”…we are borrowing more than ever when we are a riskier bet than ever. And all of the history of economics teaches us that that situation will produce one or the other of following two events. One, people will stop lending to the United States, in which case it can’t run its deficit. … Or, they’ll keep lending, but they’ll demand higher interest rates to compensate for the greater risk of lending to a country that’s got a $40 trillion debt. The United States is the most indebted country in the world. Nobody’s close.” —Richard Wolff #usa

Radical means "root," the support or foundation, the fundamen- tal, the basis or basic principle. Radical aliveness invites and challenges us to go to the root of aliveness, to the place from which our very sense of being emerges. It is a state that transcends any concept of ourselves.
—Richard Moss, The Black Butterfly: An Invitation to Radical Aliveness
#radical #aliveness

May this book humanize your healing. May this book honor your process. May this book be less about fixing yourself and more about remembering yourself. May this book make space for the messiness, right alongside the beauty. May this book offer you a refuge from it all. May this book hold you as you rediscover how to hold yourself. —Lisa Olivera, Already Enough: A Path to Self-Acceptance #book

Getting honest leads to getting brave, and getting brave leads to getting free.
—Lisa Olivera, Already Enough: A Path to Self-Acceptance

It happened, perhaps unfortunately for the inquirers into the knowledge of diseases, that other sciences had received improvement previous to their own; whence, instead of comparing the properties belonging to animated nature with each other, they, idly ingenious, busied themselves in attempting to explain the laws of life by those of mechanism and chemistry; … forgetting that animation was [life’s] essential characteristic.
—Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia (1796)
#quote #life

”To live as an artist is to exist on thresholds. Between beauty and grief. Solitude and connection. Discipline and surrender. Public and private selves. You learn to tolerate contradiction. … And practically, it means becoming resourceful, refusing the myth that someone else will come authorize your life, that someone else will come and choose you first.” —Michelle Dowd, Let them be uncomfortable #art #artists

…finding acceptance in what is allows us to return to our true selves.
—Lisa Olivera, Already Enough: A Path to Self-Acceptance

I won’t be another authority telling you what to do. Instead, I hope for this book to be an offering, an idea, a collaboration, an invitation, and a reminder of all you already hold within yourself to heal, grow, and thrive. —Lisa Olivera, Already Enough: A Path to Self-Acceptance #book

This book is about getting honest and exploring how your own stories affect you… It’s about…reframing your stories so you can choose to show up differently for yourself. And it’s about getting free by integrating all parts of who you are…in order to live a truer, more whole, and more meaningful life. —Lisa Olivera, Already Enough: A Path to Self-Acceptance #book #selfacceptance #selfexploration

”…the United States is running spectacular budget deficits and given what Mr. Trump has said: he wants to raise the defense budget up to one and a half trillion dollars. …nobody is saying, wait a minute, you’re then going to have to go into the global market, borrow huge amounts of money. You’re a country that already crossed the 40 trillion dollar national debt level this year, and you can’t keep doing this.” —Richard Wolff #usa

@JDLoeb@mstdn.social Thanks for the reminder!

My new story goes like this: I am a person who is innately lovable, who is inherently acceptable, and who deeply belongs to myself and therefore to the world. I am enough, just as I am. Living from this new story…has completely shifted the way I perceive myself and the ways in which I show up in the world. It has changed my life.
—Lisa Olivera, Already Enough: A Path to Self-Acceptance
#selfacceptance #life

This book is an invitation to inquire more deeply into our own experience, especially into the difficult areas where we seem most uncertain. Here, before the great mysteries of life, in the darkness of ourselves, reside the doorways to new possibility. … Before we define our experience, before we accept the labels of our conditioned thoughts and feelings, we must learn to create a space of unknowing—a space of openness to new interpretation. —Richard Moss, The Black Butterfly: An Invitation to Radical Aliveness #book

The issues we face as a species, the ones we’ve created out of greed, hatred, and ignorance, can only shift when we collectively awaken to our shared responsibility for all life on this planet.
—Michael Ryoshin Sapiro, Truth Medicine