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Embracing the uncomfortable is key here. We cannot remain entitled to ease, and we should challenge that ease, especially when discomfort makes you turn away from doing something.
Why Deep Thinking is Dying (Ft. Eli Pariser and Neil Postman)
The cure for suffering-which is the collision of consciousness with unconsciousness-is not to be submerged in unconsciousness, but to be raised to consciousness and to suffer more. The evil of suffering is cured by more suffering, by higher suffering. Do not take opium, but put salt and vinegar in the soul's wound, for when you sleep and no longer
... See moreDr. Stanton Marlan • The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness (Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology Book 10)
dark night and sol niger
“What is the ONE Thing I can do such that by doing it, everything else will be easier or unnecessary?”
— Gary Keller
— Gary Keller
Kurtis Pykes • This Is How to Be In a Flow State 24/7 (Even if You’re a Busy Person)
It sees that our understanding has to be participatory , and that the soul and body are not opposed but discernibly different aspects of one reality. It is better at holding together apparently conflicting positions – whereas according to the left hemisphere, nothing can be separate and connected, precisely measurable and intrinsically imprecise,... See more
Iain McGilchrist • Moving on
In Chapter 1, we discussed how each human has two “minds”—the Primitive Mind with its fiery flame and the Higher Mind with his orb of clarity and consciousness. So when humans band together, they can generate a double emergence phenomenon.
Tim Urban • A Game of Giants — Wait but Why
You can just turn off your phone at 5pm and see what the fuck happens.
Fuck the Cult of Productivity
Staying with the darkness allows something to happen that escapes us if we are hasty. If we resist our natural tendency to take flight before painful experiences, we can descend into the dark aspects of the unconscious, which is necessary if we are to make contact with what Goethe calls "infinite nature"' Turning toward such darkness requires a
... See moreDr. Stanton Marlan • The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness (Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology Book 10)
dark night and
The iron mirror is a curious artefact, in the Lady’s Barrow. It’s easy to leap to conclusions about this too, and to see it as simply a personal object – mirrors are so easy to come by today. But Iron Age mirrors are quite rare, and the workmanship that would have gone into making it – polishing and polishing it until it offers back a true
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