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  Anil

  7 months ago

  I used to think in binary too, but some years ago I came to a similar conclusion - that the world is full of blends and some colors show stronger that others, but they are all still mixed.
  
  When that happened I was able to use reason to better digest the world around me and not let different ideas bash into me like waves. Everything around us has more in common than most would like to see.
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  Taylor Davidson

  7 months ago

  Absorb different ideas rather than deflect. How we choose to use different ideas is our choice, but if we don't listen we'll never learn.
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  Lee Torrens

  7 months ago

  In relation to my own choices, 'good' and 'bad' are words of morality, just like 'right', 'wrong' and 'should'. Outside that, something either works for me and what I'm committed to, or it doesn't, or somewhere in between.
  
  If "we are who we are by doing what we do" then we can change who we are by changing what we do. Stop going to the office and start surfing and you 'are' a surfer instead of an attorney. When you actually 'get' the possibilities for 'being' different things, life starts to look a lot longer. Who do you want to be today?
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  Taylor Davidson

  7 months ago

  Change is a matter of defining priorities and making choices, as hard as they may be. I still believe we own our right to change ourselves; and we define that by our actions. We are what we do, as much as we may like that or not.
  
  I used to be a bit more strident in my positions in life; right was always right and wrong was always wrong as defined by my morality. But I've realized that multiple moralities exist: especially when compared across cultures, traditions and different times in history. I often wonder what conventions we hold as absolute will be either proved wrong or viewed very differently in the future: and if I've learned anything from history is that shifting moralities is not a possibility but a guarantee.
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  kari

  6 months ago

  “Every time you make a choice, you are turning the control part of you into something a little different from what you were before. And taking your life as a whole, with all its innumerable choices, you are slowly turning the control thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish one.” – C. S. Lewis
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  Taylor Davidson

  6 months ago

  At times I've lived beholden to my idea of my life, controlled by the world I've created.
  
  At other times I've lived with a little less control, regimen, schedule.
  
  Neither extreme has been good to me.
  
  Learning that it's ok to change my mind, that it's ok to be wrong, and that it's ok to be publicly wrong, has been great to me.
  
  (hard to go wrong with a C.S. Lewis quote, btw...)
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