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framing effect
In my opinion a good hobby has gear you can nerd out on, increasing levels of skill or knowledge that are never finished, is meditative and creates flow state, and naturally creates social connection.
Jack Altmanx.comMythological images and pathological problems refer to each other. Jung’s famous dictum makes this explicit: “The Gods have become diseases.” Nowhere does the god in the disease show more strongly and tersely than in the tightening heart pain of angina and the anxiety states that hold you back from free action. Both “angina” and “anxiety” derive
... See moreJames Hillman • The Soul's Code
ananke anxiety angina
“The urge to become what one is is invincibly strong, and you can always count on it,” wrote Jung, “but that does not mean that things will necessarily turn out positively. If you are not interested in your own fate, the unconscious is.”2
Joseph Lee LCSW • Dream Wise: Unlocking the Meaning of Your Dreams
dreams and 🌓 unconscious
The capitalist economy absolutizes survival. It is not concerned with the good life.30 It is sustained by the illusion that more capital produces more life, which means a greater capacity for living. The rigid, rigorous separation between life and death casts a spell of ghostly stiffness over life itself. Concern about living the good life yields
... See moreByung-Chul Han • The Burnout Society
Know that you are both intelligent and stupid, often in the same moment. Admit to what you desire and what you fear.
Thomas Moore • Dark Nights of the Soul
dark night and humor
the thing about boredom is that it sneaks up in places where we used to expect it. car rides. long walks. the slow parts of a meal when no one’s talking. but now we’ve armored ourselves against it with screens, headphones, and endless micro-distractions. the second boredom shows its face, we swat it away. it makes sense: boredom feels... See more
ayushi thakkar • why boredom might be the most underrated skill
Alan Watts - Understanding your dark side with Carl Jung
youtube.comWe cannot think of our biographies only as time-bound, as a progression along a line from birth to death. This is only one dimension, the temporal one, a linear one. The soul moves in circles, said Plotinus. Hence our lives are not moving straight ahead; instead, hovering, wavering, returning, renewing, repeating.