Anna B
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Anna B
Most significant to those of us interested in the Heroine’s Journey is that for a hero in a Hero’s Journey, a prevailing concept and perpetuated message is that asking for (or needing) help is BAD. Because a hero who asks for help is perceived as weak by the story
Gail Carriger • The Heroine's Journey
Everything that rises must converge, or not.
Brian Dillon • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
Plato’s truth is identical not only with the beautiful, but with the good and the just.
Crispin Sartwell • Truth Is Real and Philosophers Must Return Their Attention to It
When, in the 1970s, the Sex Pistols sang “There is no future,” there was at least a confrontational relish to it. Now there’s just dread.
Michelle Goldberg • The Darkness Where the Future Should Be
#mindfullness #spirituality #respect
‘ From my first meetings with World Weary Woman, it was clear that she could work. She could analyze, psychologize. But she had not learned how to play ... It is in pausing to connect with her own inner wisdom that World Weary Woman learns to create ... to cultivate what brings joy, to savour her connection with cosmos. Thus she transforms her... See more
Dr Sharon Blackie • The psychology of midlife
One might have hoped to turn to philosophy for a clarification of the nature of truth, and maybe even a celebration of it. But philosophy of pragmatist, analytic and continental varieties lurched into the post-truth era a century ago.