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I can’t believe I’m about to say this but: you have to periodically recharge your talismans with fresh thoughts and energy or they’ll “decay” https://t.co/a4yJhqFipo
Same is true for altars, clothing, everything in your life https://t.co/70ziTqmwlW
You may have seen me wearing this - I bought it from this older man in SF who spent his youth travelling through Morocco, Egypt, etc. We talked for 20 mins about art & passion & love. He’s one of me. Talismans are simply objects with stories that are meaningful to you https://t.co/3xWT30P5uD
I make no claim about whether your thoughts and energy literally cause physical changes in material objects. I have no idea about that I’m talking primarily about the realm of ideas, your *emotional* response to some object or another. Gratitude within *your* reality-sphere https://t.co/8ZiMrnRR38
And of course this is true for people too, surely much more so https://t.co/5vWeAe8RRJ
Everyday is a new opportunity to assign value to things, to decide what is important, what is beautiful, what is good, what is deserving. In this regard you are truly the Monarch of your life, first of your name, bla bla https://t.co/YGXHATd5Ke
If you do a beautiful job of treating your own life as something sacred, other people who witness you doing it will notice. Not everyone. In fact most people won’t notice. But the small handful of people who notice will increase your power level unlike anything else https://t.co/82Lmg7qDnm
This is one of the things I’m talking about re: aesthetics and vectors. It’s about how you choose to assign value. If you do it artfully, other people will subscribe to it, which gives it more power, more currency. I suppose this is religion/cult-starting 101 https://t.co/CnO5U9CA79
But I’m not trying to start a cult. I’m just trying to be more in tune with my own emotions, my own body, everything that constitutes my life. The funny thing is you can’t hide the glow when you do it right. When you do it right, there is a “charge”, and people are drawn to you https://t.co/rZKOQrDAKH
Everything in your life is a sort of elaborate memory board. spiders use their webs as a form of external cognition. We use *everything*. All our objects are telling us stories. Some of us realize we can inspect and edit those stories https://t.co/KSYxpxuuXg
everything tells a story; the story of modernity is often a story of amnesia https://t.co/aaIaYkZazf
This $10 piece of costume jewelry is one of the most precious things I have, because it reminds me that some people find me sexy (which is very powerful - it makes me more abundant, more generous, less needy) Of course like Thor’s hammer, it’s a tool, an aid, not the source https://t.co/ONIEw7chA0
and every talisman is fragile and fleeting, just as existence itself is fragile and fleeting https://t.co/6T8WzlkVra
"You will lose everything. Right now, we stand on sacred and holy ground. Impermanence has already rendered everything [...] worthy of your heartbreaking gratitude. Loss has already transfigured your life into an altar." - @WonderOfBeing https://t.co/BrO8QPAIRZ
I’ve only recently begun to learn how to play this game with objects - but I have a wealth of experience playing with words https://t.co/JVVPmc7RS5
What is sacred in your life? What is valuable to you, what is beautiful, what is true, right, good? And what are you doing in service of it? https://t.co/kfbHiUnpwx
turn up the voltage https://t.co/f8cyOSsHm7
One of things Marie Kondo mentions when talking about “Spark Joy” is this idea that... for a lot of people, when they touch their things, they don’t even really have any feelings at all. It’s “just stuff”, and they have to *practice* feeling the feelings. Turning up the voltage https://t.co/bX1zz1NDFj
attention consecrates https://t.co/HtsbdwTeWA
humans can create talismans (meaningful objects) at will intuitive example of "humans charging a talisman" is a wedding ceremony → wedding ring you can similarly do ceremonies to imbue any object with meaning. trophies, medals. people compete very hard for some of these https://t.co/oUCkuDHU6w
