It is rare to meet someone who is fully connected to their core essence, but we know it right away when we do. These people have a certain luminosity to them, they emanate contentment and clarity, and they seem to have enough time.
Anne Berube • The Burnout Antidote
If being ignored hollows us out, then being truly seen (not liked, not followed, not “engaged with”) but seen, can feel almost unbearable. Because while we claim to crave attention, many of us are silently terrified of what it might uncover. What if someone looks too closely and sees the neediness we have camouflaged as chill? The resentment we... See more
For this reason, the process of knowing the self should be relentless. It will always be worth asking what is really true of us, for each day we live, we do so with deeper longings for acceptance, and the risk of alienation can cause us to dissociate from the truth of ourselves.