#via-negativa — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #via-negativa, aggregated by home.social.
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#JulianofNorwich: "Our soul must perform 2 duties:...we must reverently wonder & be surprised; we must gently let go & let be, always taking pleasure in God." These are 1st 2 paths of the Creation Spirituality journey: #viapositiva & #vianegativa, joy & praise & silence & suffering. https://bit.ly/453ossb
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@Gina we build an image of your dad based on the things he doesn't like.
The infamous quote doubtfully attributed to Michelangelo on the creation of David, "I just chipped away all the marble that wasn't David"We end up with what your dad likes, based on everything he doesn't like. 😉
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@Gina we build an image of your dad based on the things he doesn't like.
The infamous quote doubtfully attributed to Michelangelo on the creation of David, "I just chipped away all the marble that wasn't David"We end up with what your dad likes, based on everything he doesn't like. 😉
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Writers like Nassim Nicholas Taleb use #ViaNegativa for decision‑making and #RiskManagement, arguing that #knowledge often grows more reliably by identifying and eliminating what is clearly wrong or harmful.
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Writers like Nassim Nicholas Taleb use #ViaNegativa for decision‑making and #RiskManagement, arguing that #knowledge often grows more reliably by identifying and eliminating what is clearly wrong or harmful.
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#Pruning creates #strength, richness, depth, tho temporarily pruning hurts & conjures up #doubt & #fear. It takes a wise individual to prune themself according to their unique needs & timing. But from this #lettinggo we become much stronger people. #OriginalBlessing #ViaNegativa bit.ly/3X5SbMD
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The experience of emptiness & void ( #ViaNegativa) is essential to #Merton’s art. True, w/o letting go there can be no #art — less is better than too much — but in Merton the soul's movement from #contemplation/ #ViaPositiva to #creativity & art is washed thru the #nothingness of God. https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/05/28/merton-and-the-via-negativa/
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The #News brings #pain, #wounds, & #suffering—the #ViaNegativa on steroids–and sometimes overwhelming #despair. So we should admit how #vulnerable we are & encircle ourselves in a robe of #light as we “witness the wounds of the world.” And know that we are #notalone. https://bit.ly/4aW465c
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The #News brings #pain, #wounds, & #suffering—the #ViaNegativa on steroids–and sometimes overwhelming #despair. So we should admit how #vulnerable we are & encircle ourselves in a robe of #light as we “witness the wounds of the world.” And know that we are #notalone. https://bit.ly/4aW465c
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The #4PathsOfCreationSpirituality - the #ViaPositiva, #ViaNegativa, #ViaCreativa & #ViaTransformativa - are the means by which we deepen our #vocation as #spiritualwarriors & move beyond #blame or #selfpity to become strong & useful #citizens of #strength, #conscience and #confidence. https://bit.ly/40Awghy
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Just another lie
Serial Felon standing
Ready for His Day
#Buddhism #haiku #ArtAsMeditation #USA #DreadScott2025 #News #Trump #MAGA #ViaNegativa #Saturday #Winter @naropau -
Just another lie
Serial Felon standing
Ready for His Day
#Buddhism #haiku #ArtAsMeditation #USA #DreadScott2025 #News #Trump #MAGA #ViaNegativa #Saturday #Winter @naropau -
my first heuristic when trying new stuff out, nowadays is not how it works, but *who* made it.
if this is a VC funded / global megacorp thing, it automatically puts it in a no trust, try in a sandbox, give it a really long trial, and then use it and then don’t even trust it zone, if i use it at all
most times, I’ll just skip it. #ViaNegativa
life’s too short to be burned multiple times.
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My best advice to freelancers is… to avoid
https://sharpen.page/consulting/via-negativa-inverse-freelancing-advice/
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My best advice to freelancers is… to avoid
https://sharpen.page/consulting/via-negativa-inverse-freelancing-advice/
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"Let us say that, in general, failure (and disconfirmation) are more informative than success and confirmation, which is why I claim that negative knowledge is just more robust."
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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"49. 'Our soul must perform two duties. The one is we must reverently wonder and be surprised; the other is we must gently let go and let be always taking pleasure in God.' — Julian of Norwich
"Here Julian names the via positiva and the via negativa paths of creation spirituality. The first is to wonder and be open to awe and surprise; the second is to let go and let be. These are the first steps of the spiritual path. How are we as a society doing? How are you doing?
"The next two paths of the creation spirituality journey are the via creativa, or creativity, and the via transformativa, or justice and compassion. But they flow from these first two paths of praise and of the letting go, which we learn from silence and from suffering."
- Matthew Fox, Christian Mystics: 365 Readings and Meditations
#Religion #Spirituality #Theology #Mysticism #Christianity #ViaNegativa
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"49. 'Our soul must perform two duties. The one is we must reverently wonder and be surprised; the other is we must gently let go and let be always taking pleasure in God.' — Julian of Norwich
"Here Julian names the via positiva and the via negativa paths of creation spirituality. The first is to wonder and be open to awe and surprise; the second is to let go and let be. These are the first steps of the spiritual path. How are we as a society doing? How are you doing?
"The next two paths of the creation spirituality journey are the via creativa, or creativity, and the via transformativa, or justice and compassion. But they flow from these first two paths of praise and of the letting go, which we learn from silence and from suffering."
- Matthew Fox, Christian Mystics: 365 Readings and Meditations
#Religion #Spirituality #Theology #Mysticism #Christianity #ViaNegativa
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Oration
A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
~ Lord Mancroftslip:4a787.
Conversations are difficult to end well. I’ve spent considerable time thinking about how to end them, and talking to people about how to end them. (I am aware it’s awfully meta to have conversations with people about how to end conversations.) As with anything (making toast for example), it’s good to first figure out common ways to horribly muck it up (try burning the toast), and learning to consistently not muck it up.
Here are three ways to muck up a conversation so as to avoid having a good ending.
First: Drag the conversation on until your conversation partner is exhausted. One might think it could make for a good ending—just the sheer relief of it ending! But alas (poor Yorick), it’s just an ending and not a good one.
Second: Get the last word in. If you’re the host (of the podcast, the dinner party, etc.), insisting on being the last one to touch the conversation baton is guaranteed to make a bad ending.
Third: If it’s going well, always keep going. That way, you only end when it’s not going well. In other words: Actively choose a bad place to end.
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Love affairs
A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
~ Lord Mancroftslip:4a787.
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“Success is largely the failures you avoid.
Health is the injuries you don’t sustain.
Wealth is the purchases you don’t make.
Happiness is the objects you don’t desire.
Peace of mind is the arguments you don’t engage.
Avoid the bad to protect the good.”3-2-1: On compliments, inversion, and the importance of high standards | James Clear
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The ultimate form of optimization is elimination.
Nothing is more effective than removing the ineffective.