Kylee Schmuck
@brokenhips
Kylee Schmuck
the most transformative dialogues often feature exploration rather than predetermined outcomes. We don’t know what we want, and we use conversation to get closer to articulating our desire. Some conversations are infinite, like games for their own sake.
A Philosophy of Conversation
The Crystal Text by Clark Coolidge
eclipsearchive.orgCompulsions can make obsessive thoughts go away, but only for a short while. One of the many cruel ironies of OCD is that the compulsions, the weapon that obsessed people reach for, make the situation worse. Compulsions act in the same way as thought suppression. An intrusive thought silenced with a compulsive act comes back. It comes back hard.
David Adam • The Man Who Couldn't Stop
Our failure is one of imagination, of empathy: we have failed to hold this reality in mind.
Susan Sontag • Regarding the Pain of Others
“All cruelty springs from weakness.”
A quote from Seneca's Morals
To me, there is no clearer message: Chaos reigns.
