Yuli Miller

I'll be starting an extended retreat today, in which I continue to be immersed in the realities of day-to-day life and the hardships and heart breaks of being human. Feel free to join in.

"When we are present, deeply present, in what we experience, it is turtles all the way down. Experience is groundless. When we look into that fathom-less depth, we often recoil with fear. We feel as if we are jumping off a cliff into a bottomless abyss...

Trying to create your reality only puts you in conflict with reality, leading to burnout and despair. If you flow with 'what is,' you realize the universe is aligned with your purest being, most authentic longings, and highest potential. It's just waiting for you to get on board.

It accelerates global wealth inequality, primarily through the transfer of wealth from labor to capital/tech. rates corp borrowing investment in automation output shareholder value lower/middle class jobs lower/middle class income Which only worsens in a downturn.

It’s really depressing how important it is to every person to be seen, no matter how obscure and unimportant, and how deeply they start to collapse when they’re not being seen. And older = worse. Most people don’t develop the inner resources to endure not being seen for long.

Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.

A lot of things make a lot more sense when you consider that people have toxic relationships, are sleep deprived, eating junk, sitting for too long, are saddled with debt, and are generally being tortured by existence via thousands of small cuts

As William Blake said, I must create my own system, or he enslaved by another man's. Great teachers help their students, INVITE their students, to create their own systems, and not be enslaved by their's.

If you want people to listen, learn to speak their language, and then you can translate the idea

Feelings are evolved heuristics encoding tons of information that might or might not be well aligned to the situation at handhttps://twitter.com/Keel_Kenney/status/1195388064237006848 …

Contemplative states & traits can be communicated without using religious language but unfortunately the aesthetics of scientific/rational communication does very little to describe profound subjective experiences in ways that produce awe & wonder.

"The single greatest world transformation would simply be the embrace of global reasonableness and pluralistic tolerance." - Ken Wilber