I believe almost no one gets as much variety as they crave or deserve. The ProxThink Sustainable Proximities approach could change that. It could help us create sustainable proximities within which each of us individually, and together in groups, could experience more variety.
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Relationships with other people and the world will usually be incomplete, partial, and sometimes frustrating.
So this creates a need for things like belief systems and personality, to fill in the gaps. Also, things like philosophies, possessions, money, art, music, fashion and personal style.
A danger is if these gap-fillers become mistaken for the whole of […]
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With ProxThink, perhaps I’ve invented some new ways to be reasonable, balanced and measured, but in ways that promote life and vitality.
Proxri Deal: As you find our relationship rewarding, proxri with the proximity in mind.
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Ultimately, perhaps there is no reason to get up in the morning, or to start, stop or continue doing anything, or to enjoy anything, other than this reason: to be in the flow of life.
Being in the flow of life is another way of saying being related to life. Being is about relating, which […]
One must live life for a wide variety of reasons, the sum of which is greater than any of them.
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These seem to be two constraints humans face:
We’re constrained in one way by the reality that to get much done, we need to collaborate with other people.
We’re constrained in another way by the limits of groups of people to collaborate, both among themselves and with other groups.
It’s a persistent dynamic tension and a kind […]
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Pretty much anything done to excess or to the exclusion of variety can make you angry, bitter and ineffective. What you are doing can also seem strained or excessive to others, making it less effective. Similarly, too much variety can also make you angry, bitter and ineffective.
So it seems we must have some variety […]
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In today’s dizzying world, enough can’t be had, or perhaps, it’s just a false goal. You can never get enough, or do enough. There is always something else you could be doing. And even knowing there is never enough is not enough!
I think that our goal, or direction, should be rather to seek the […]
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The banal is often the most deep. However, it can take some effort to see it. But you can go from “The sky is blue” to “The sky is blue! (And so amazing it’s about to blow my mind.)” This can be done without drugs. In fact, it’s way, way better without drugs. Nature […]
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One’s life is like a house. Different moods, different personalities, different awarenesses, are like different rooms you can go into at different times.
~ Proxri Deal: As you find our relationship rewarding, proxri with the proximity in mind. ~
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