The Ledger
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Mervosh: The smartest people become the biggest fools through intellectual overconfidence
“A fool's a certain of everything. What makes a fool a fool is you don't know that you're one. And you can't make use of it, and the biggest fools are the smartest people, the brightest bulb in the room, who are seduced by their own minds into a belief that the…”
Mervosh: True heroism requires adapting oneself rather than forcing external change
“The heroic task is facing what is, and not trying to change what is. That's called a tyrant. Tyrants trying to change the world around them to suit them. It's also called the infant. And rather, we have to change ourselves in relation to what is, and adapt our…”
Mervosh: Focus on Developing Your Deficits, Not Polishing Your Strengths
“The awkwardness of something that where we feel incapable, or where we feel unwilling to go, like, that is definitely the areas where it has your greatest potential for development. Our strong suits don't need more work. And that's how we got out of balance be…”
Mervosh: Fear is simply unprocessed and unformulated excitement
“Fear is, is really unprocessed and unformulated excitement.”
Mervosh: Isolated egos feel inadequate because pure individualism is a myth
“The, I will always, always be inadequate because I is just part of something larger than I cut off from the hole. And that's the great big myth, in my opinion, and many others who pursue this path of understanding. It's the great lie of a Western-wide white ci…”
Mervosh: Hierarchical authority is a fallacy masking buried personal inadequacies
“There is no, I on high level. You know, this hierarchical patriarchal fallacy. And I know it's a fallacy because I know some of these eyes on high in this world pretty well to know who's really the wizard over here. And what's a massive projection of some talk…”
Mervosh: True currency derives value from exchange rather than accumulation
“Any kind of valuable currency is the ability to exchange it, not to collect it. When we have a lively, a life-giving exchange, it holds value to the two of us, and when we turn it into a thing, when we objectify a currency, it becomes this static thing.”
Mervosh: Clinging to accumulated wealth puts people in survival mode
“What's wrong with accumulation of anything? Wealth, status, success. It's great. Enjoy it. Now, when you cling to it, you're starved and you're on a survival mode.”
Mervosh: 'Ask and you shall receive' is a fairy tale for children
“Ask and you shall receive. Seek and you shall find. Knock and the door will be opened to you. Oh man, that's a fairy tale for children. Ask. First of all, ask. Ask what? And ask when you really need help. How hard it is to ask, number one. When you ask, you do…”
Mervosh: Fear is fundamentally unprocessed and unformulated excitement
“That's the alchemical force. That fear is really unprocessed and unformulated excitement.”
Mervosh: Hierarchical patriarchal leadership is a fallacy masking personal inadequacy
“There is no I on high on this hierarchical patriarchal fallacy. And I know it's a fallacy because I know some of these eyes on high in this world pretty well to know who's really the wizard. Over here, and with some massive projection of some talking head, sho…”
Mervosh: The Subconscious Need to Produce Governs the Modern Psyche
“There's also a part of a lot of us who are learning for the first time that for all of our lives up until now, in the background of our culture and therefore of our psyches, what's always running is the economy. And what the economy says is you get to work and…”
Mervosh: Modern Culture Equates Personal Legitimacy with Constant Busyness
“So if you think about the vernacular in conversations, I know you're a busy person. We're all legit if we're busy. Rather than say, well, no, I really don't have anything to do.”
Mervosh: Video Screens Act Like Confessionals for Honest Conversations
“And then I've noticed it's kind of like a confessional From the Catholic perspective here in the Easter week, where when you're in a confessional and you don't go face to face, you feel freer to say what's really, you open up differently. The barrier is actual…”
Mervosh: People who ignore their wounds compensate by becoming saviors
“If you're not in touch with your wound, and your deficit, or your flaw, and you don't know that it's in you, and active in you, because you've disidentified with it, and you say, I don't want to go there anymore, and you haven't genuinely had people go there w…”
Mervosh: The true value of currency lies in exchange, not accumulation
“To be able to obtain the currency, any kind of valuable currency is the ability to exchange it. Not to collect it, but to exchange it, and when we have a lively, a life-giving exchange, I can give you a current of my poetry, and you can give me a current of yo…”
Mervosh: Life's rewards are limited by one's level of consciousness
“The boon you get is commensurate, right? To the consciousness you have at the time you're gifted with something.”
Mervosh: Pursuing perfection as a destination creates rigidity and personal crises
“We seek perfection. Like it's a destination and it doesn't exist, but we don't know that. So we rigidify ourselves, and we point ourselves like a rigid arrow aiming for something in a linear world, and we go along a timeline, or a path, or a ladder, and we cli…”
Mervosh: Expanding capacity for uncertainty enhances ability to navigate complexity
“The more you're, you grow your capacity for uncertainty and complexity, the more you have ability to navigate terrains and whole new ways when the uncertainty is a doorway. Not a problem to be eliminated”
Mervosh: A calling always arises from deprivation and missing development
“Well, a call always comes when something's missing. You have to be deprived of something. Something has to be absent or undeveloped, and the part of you that's awake and aware knows it. That part of you knows something's missing.”
Mervosh: Growing capacity for uncertainty expands ability to navigate complexity
“The work of the hero is to embrace a relationship to uncertainty, to understand that the more you grow your capacity for uncertainty and complexity, the more you have ability to navigate terrains in whole new ways when the uncertainty is a doorway, not a probl…”
Mervosh's Three-Outreach Framework to Rebuild Connections During a Crisis
“If you were listening to this and you would like to just lean into something differently, make three phone calls or three outreaches. The first call will be to reach out and talk to someone that you haven't talked to in a long time and get over yourself. Oh, I…”
Mervosh: Resistant people only open up to psychological change during crisis
“You don't do anything about that. You just wait for the trouble to come, because it always comes.”
Mervosh: Psychological maturity requires adapting to reality, not forcing change
“The heroic task is facing what is, and not trying to change what is. That's called a tyrant. Phillip Shepherd writes about that in his books, you know, new self, new world, radical wholeness. No, that's a tyrant. Tyrants trying to change the world around them …”
Mervosh: Vocational calls arise from recognizing what is missing or undeveloped
“Well, call always comes when something's missing. You know, you have to be deprived of something. Something has to be absent or undeveloped, and the part of you that's awake and aware knows it. That part of you knows something's missing.”
Mervosh: Transformation cannot be instructed, only catalyzed through the right conditions
“I can't tell you how you come alive inside, but I can create conditions that allows me to come alive and maybe others to come alive.”
Mervosh: Shared Activities Eliminate the Fatigue of Forced Banter
“When you're with somebody that you're not well acquainted with, you feel like you have to keep a banter going, and it's tiresome. The space is similar to like a jigsaw puzzle where you have the activity allowing everyone to relax and just be there.”