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Lonelinesses
Loneliness is one of the most painful yet necessary experiences in life. People feel incomplete, empty, or even starvinginside. It is also a strong motivating force, just as food hunger is.
John Townsend • Boundaries in Dating: How Healthy Choices Grow Healthy Relationships
Intellectual loneliness is a challenge that many people feel, but nobody talks about. It’s built on a paradox where you feel alive when you’re learning on the Internet but soul-crushed when you try to talk about those same ideas with friends and family.
David Perell • Intellectual Loneliness
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This type of loneliness is a chronic, longstanding sense of emptiness in life, no matter what the circumstances. The person can be around many loving, caring people, and still feel isolated. She may either feel that others don’t care, or that she is unable to receive what they give. This loneliness is an indication that something is broken in one’s
... See moreJohn Townsend • Boundaries in Dating: How Healthy Choices Grow Healthy Relationships
The mystic psychologist Carl Jung suggested that such sensations do ‘not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.’ In other words this kind of loneliness arises from feeling not fully seen, held, celebrated or u... See more
Joe Lightfoot • Of Pods, Squads, Crews & Gangs: Small Group Experiments In Radical Belonging
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Loneliness arises when thought is divorced from reality, when the common world has been replaced by the tyranny of coercive logical demands.
Samantha Rose Hill • Hannah Arendt enjoyed her solitude, but she believed that loneliness could make people susceptible to totalitarianism
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The aloneness I keep referencing refers to a deep acknowledgement of your own brief place in the world, a small luminescent flicker in this great infinite darkness. The light is for you to bear and yours alone. No one is coming to tell you what to want, when to want it, when to leave and when to fight for anything. For some that feels like youth an... See more
Loneliness is a kind of tax we have to pay to atone for a certain complexity of mind”
Alain de Botton
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L is for lonely, because everyone is, and the artist does the endless work of helping us conquer that loneliness.