Vivid Void Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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@StuartSomething I love the poet Denis Johnson. His book The Incognito Lounge has some of the best contemporary poetry yet, imo

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"The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive." Ernest Becker, "The Denial of Death" https://t.co/eBHyxSUOXX

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@JLBornstein My advice: read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and follow Pirsig's creative writing lessons in that. Pick a single brick of a building, and describe it as truthfully as you can in as much detail as possible. Zoom out and repeat. Your style will deepen and individuate

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Walter Isaacson's biography of Leonardo da Vinci is an unserious and near-insulting caricature of one of history's great minds. The biographer expense so much energy trying to make him relatable to the contemporary PMC-creative class that DaVinci himself is lost.

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A Poem for Monday "The Fist" by Derek Walcott The fist clenched round my heart loosens a little, and I gasp brightness; but it tightens again. When have I ever not loved the pain of love? https://t.co/klDm6pFjb1

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@StitualTissue @sc_sager The relational and emotional? Focusing by Eugene Gendlin is a great pair with Atomic Habits I always recommend Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance in these situations @tasshinfogleman got anything?

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@morfindog Have you read Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl?

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Getting my shit rocked by a barely literate French peasant monk from the 1600s. SW (Reading the Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence.) This man attained a form of enlightenment via one practice that I think almost any mystical tradition would recognize. https://t.co/LFO98PCrh0