2023: Polarity
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2023: Polarity
We are living the wide-open present through the narrow drama of the past. It is a complicating factor that our imbalances don’t cleanly reveal their origins, either to our own minds or, consequently, to the world at large. We aren’t really sure why we run away as we do, or are so often angry, or have a proud, haughty air, or break every deadline, o
... See moreAlain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
The only sensible path forward is to learn to accept the brokenness of human life, to develop resilience in the face of its petty cruelties, and to learn to live with yourself.
themselves out, seeking a form of stability and functional social living without losing connection to their sense of meaning, even if engaging in such work may feel abhorrent at the outset.
Satya Doyle Byock • Quarterlife
Dorian Deshauer, a psychiatrist and historian at the University of Toronto, told me, “Once you abandon the idea of the personal baseline, it becomes possible to think of emotional suffering as relapse—instead of something to be expected from an individual’s way of being in the world.”