It seems to me the ultimate act of love is to allow ourselves and others to be complex. In affection and respect, I try never to pin down, sum up, pigeon-hole, label, or otherwise reduce myself or any other living system to a singular tag.
Nora Bateson • Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through other patterns
But squeezing yourself into a small, easily explainable cage you know you’ll quickly outgrow just to avoid the pain of struggling to explain who you are to other people is, in my opinion, just avoidance of facing your full potential.
concentration
If I look into myself and seem to see a mass of solidified qualities, of personality traits, tendencies, limitations, relics of past hurts and so on, all pinning me down to an identity, I am forgetting that none of these things can define me at all.
Sarah Bakewell • At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
I'm also reflecting on 'what do I want my own corner of the internet to say about me?'.[1]
As I consider that question, though, I also come back to the complexity of human beings. We have multiple - and sometimes contradictory - facets to our identity, which are more or less salient in particular contexts.
As I consider that question, though, I also come back to the complexity of human beings. We have multiple - and sometimes contradictory - facets to our identity, which are more or less salient in particular contexts.
Personal websites as self expression
Because in our modern world we tend to simplify the idea of the whole human – and that means we’re not very good at working with all our complexities, and different layers, and the subtle parts of ourselves