“I’m not interested in myself per se. I’m interested in myself as theme carrier, as host.”
― David Shields, Reality Hunger
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“I’m not interested in myself per se. I’m interested in myself as theme carrier, as host.” ― David Shields, Reality Hunger
the self is the sense of being the subject of experience,
Sam Harris • Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
“The self may not be something, but neither is it nothing. It is simply ungraspable, unfindable.”28
Kieran Setiya • Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
the unbearable about-ness of being. By “about-ness” I meant that I felt disconnected from myself, abstracted from my own life.
Suzanne Koven • Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
Your identity is literally your “repeated beingness.”
James Clear • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
Striving to be who I take myself to be is not a task that can be completed or a goal that can be achieved. Rather, striving to be myself is intrinsic to any form of practical and existential identity. I cannot have a practical identity without continuing to try to have a practical identity, and I cannot have an existential identity without continui
... See moreMartin Hägglund • This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
the primary concern of the writer should revolve around the aesthetic elements of the work which are ultimately a way of containing / directing what emerges from the darkness of the writers interior.
lately I’ve been thinking of great writing as work that emerges from a very distinctive, very deep subjectivity; and “craft” is about finding the ideal... See more
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I don’t like being seen as a content creator. In fact, I don’t believe content creation or writing is an occupation, because it denotes that creating or writing is a thing we do, instead of something we embody naturally.
For me, writing is not what I do , it’s who I am.
I do not try.
Creating/writing comes out of me the way I sweat during a workout:... See more
For me, writing is not what I do , it’s who I am.
I do not try.
Creating/writing comes out of me the way I sweat during a workout:... See more