Boris Pasternak, live not by lies https://t.co/Kn53pt6E4w

lies warp the structure of Being. Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
Jordan B. Peterson • 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
The unexamined life is surely worth living, but is the unloved life worth examining? It seems a strange question until one realizes how much of our so-called mental life is about the lives we are not living, the lives we are missing out on, the lives we could be leading but for some reason are not. What we fantasize about, what we long for, are th
... See moreAdam Phillips • Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life
In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the surface of your Being. When you are not in your body, however, an emotion can survive inside you for days or weeks, or join with other emotions of a similar frequency that have merged and become the pain-body, a parasite that can live
... See moreEckhart Tolle • The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
The Body and the Body’s actions remain imbalanced unless the person is willing to respond to the true needs of the moment rather than taking a habit learned in the past and projecting it onto the present because it seems to apply.
Ceanne DeRohan • Right Use of Will: Healing and Evolving the Emotional Body
“Not many people can confront the truth about themselves. If they did they’d run a mile, would take an immediate and profound dislike to the person in whose skin they’d learned to sit quite tolerably all these years.”