Psychokinetics | Manav B. Ponnekanti
I really cannot emphasise enough how important realising this was for me. Nothing is more powerful, addictive, anti-depressive—I daresay spiritual—than the feel
I really cannot emphasise enough how important realising this was for me. Nothing is more powerful, addictive, anti-depressive—I daresay spiritual—than the feeling of motion, the rhythm of progress. The true sin and misfortune of being stuck is that you forget this, you forget what it feels like to be moving, so you cannot really price it in correctly. Instead, you try to get moving for some sort of abstract or philosophical or ideological reason, but these things can never compel a person strongly enough to get unstuck. The only worthwhile reason to move is movement itself, how good it…
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