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The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inert, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it.

— Morpheus

Art by Lucas Camargo AkA UntitledArmy

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Once upon a time people were born into communities and had to find their individuality. Today people are born individuals and have to find their communities.

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Admit it. You aren’t like them.

You’re not even close.

You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes.

But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the normal people as they go about their automatic existences.

For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”.

Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger.

Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.

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Worthy Five: Bora

Dense Discovery — Issue 324

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I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

— David Lynch, 1946-2025.

Farewell master, and thanks for all the great—dark art.

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If human are shaped by their environment,

then this environment has to be made human.

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In an ironic manner.

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The creative process ✨

Discover — Read a lot. Observe the world. Notice. Collect — Record anything that strikes you. Generate — Build on your notes to brainstorm ideas. Combine — Connect previously unconnected ideas. Refine — Edit, edit, edit. Select the best.

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A tribute to neo-noir femmes fatales.

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We must understand that we are not outside of nature; we are a part of a complex system and our actions must reflect that knowledge.

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In out-of-the-way places of the heart, Where your thoughts never think to wander, This beginning has been quietly forming, Waiting until you were ready to emerge. 

For a long time it has watched your desire, Feeling the emptiness growing inside you, Noticing how you willed yourself on, Still unable to leave what you had outgrown. 

It watched you play with the seduction of safety And the gray promises that sameness whispered, Heard the waves of turmoil rise and relent, Wondered would you always live like this. 

Then the delight, when your courage kindled, And out you stepped onto new ground, Your eyes young again with energy and dream, A path of plenitude opening before you. 

Though your destination is not yet clear You can trust the promise of this opening; Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning That is at one with your life’s desire. 

Awaken your spirit to adventure; Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk; Soon you will be home in a new rhythm, For your soul senses the world that awaits you.

— For a new beginning, John O’Donohue

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The Sounds of Earth, Voyager Golden Record

This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts, and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours.

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The Matrix Trust your intuitions and dreams. Is the ultimate way to free your mind.

Step 1 → Dreaming of the question. Step 2 → The destructive truth. Unlearn our limitations Step 3 → Reconstructing a new reality from scratch. Use visualization. Giving higher meaning to our existence. Step 4 → Self-knowledge. Decide your destiny. Step 5 → Overcoming doubt, fear, and disbelief. Step 6 → Belief. New identity Step 7 → Love. Belief powered by love is unstoppable

Accepting the truth allows us to fly free. A world, where anything is possible.

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Maybe the journey isn't so much about becoming anything. Maybe it's about un-becoming everything that really isn't you, so you can be why you were meant to be in the first place.

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Pablo Picasso's quote beautifully reflects the idea that youthfulness, in spirit and creativity, is not bound by age. Embracing a youthful perspective on life can lead to ongoing creativity and a sense of wonder, regardless of how many years have passed.

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The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue center light pop and everybody goes “Awww!”

📸 @sabinevali

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Marcel Duchamp directing a life-size chess game.

Connecticut, 1956. Philippe Halsman