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The Charm of Philosophical Psychology
The main answer is that the pursuit of identity runs against the very grain of existence. To fight it is to doom yourself to endless frustration, and, in fact, to turn your life into a sort of living death.
Alexander Douglas • Against Identity: The Wisdom of Escaping the Self
Humans are messy, and it can be dangerous to deny our common fallibility by drawing up lines that separate and divide. Right side? Wrong side? Mostly, we are the mess in the middle, dazed within a fog of unknowing, stunned by life and amazed by it too, and all the more beautiful for it.
"But maybe you don’t need to be explainable. Maybe the most interesting perspectives come from being willing to occupy a difficult-to-define place, even if it means sacrificing others' understanding of you. The challenge then becomes committing to occupy that place far longer than most feel comfortable — long enough to cultivate a voice out of your... See more