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What condition do we live within?

A feeling does not arrive into nothing. It lands in a climate you were already standing in — and the climate was there first.

A state — the condition you are already inside when a feeling arrives.

Thirteen positions, and home is wherever you have been living.

A state is the climate a feeling lands in, not the feeling.

What this settles

And the condition you end up in decides what you can reach next. That is what makes this structural rather than atmospheric — the state is not how the day went, it is what the next hour is allowed to contain.

What it leaves open

Why does a state onset as it does, in this person, on this day?

Raised in this footing and marked open by the foundation itself.

Not this question

Where’s the peak, if not at the bright extreme?

Also in this footing, and a different question. This one names the thirteen positions. That one says which of them you actually want.

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Where this is worked out

foundation

Theories of the Self

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What is a mood, actually?

glossary

state

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The states

The condition a feeling lands into rather than the feeling — where the peak sits on the map, why a state arrives when it does, and what one is to somebody who cannot work one. 2 of the 5 here have been worked through; the rest are on the map and not yet walked.

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