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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
Do not seek to eradicate pain. Seek to have a better relationship with it by not fearing it (by recognizing the wholeness of all things).
Healing yourself doesn’t need to be so painful.
Then, when the opposing warriors rode down on them, these beings “turned sideways into the light” and disappeared.2 Legend says that they entered into the cracks between the visible and invisible worlds, where it is thought that they still reside, in what is called the land of faery.
Sally Kempton • Awakening Shakti: The Transformative Power of the Goddesses of Yoga
The histories of psychical research societies and parapsychology laboratories are stories of promising beginnings, rapid initial growth, encounters with tricksters, internal conflict, stagnation and decline.
George P. Hansen • The Trickster and the Paranormal
Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person’s capacity to act.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Flow: The Psychology of Happiness
I once asked a group of students on their final day at their prestigious university what book had changed their life over the previous four years. A long, awkward silence followed. Finally a student said, “You have to understand, we don’t read like that. We only sample enough of each book to get through class.” These students were hurrying to be... See more
David Brooks • You Might Be a Late Bloomer
Christ is always willing to die and resurrect himself, while Satan isn’t willing to die. It’s a metaphor to contrast two opposites: constant transformation (or, perpetual “molting”), vs., desperate ego-clinging. It’s about shedding frames vs. clutching frames.
Funny how this is embedded in the root of Christianity, yet the surface-level practice of
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