Cheryl S
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Cheryl S
The Wisdom of Paradox: Logic is the key to scientific truths, but paradoxes are the key to psychological ones. When it comes to the human condition, the deepest truths are often counter-intuitive. When you find two opposites that are both true, start exploring.
perell.com • 50 Ideas That Changed My Life - David Perell
be a paradox. build one thing, but don't be one thing. be an artist and a capitalist. be a savage and saint. treat business like a game. treat fitness like meditation. believe in god. believe in yourself. war and art. spirit and profit. be an insatiable serial killer in work. be a golden retriever in life. do everything to the extreme. you should... See more
bluex.comIf our multiplying selves are not a compromise of our integrity, but an evolutionary necessity, could we reconcile our expanding egostack with the need for coherence? Seeing other versions of ourselves may not always feel good, but there's a quiet redemption in embracing our contradictions – not as failures of authenticity, but as evidence of our... See more
Lore Oxford • The egostack
Knowing who you are is grounding; it gives you a sense of trajectory. But when we assign words and meanings to what we know we like and value and want, we create attachments. We then strive to keep things within the parameters of which we’ve already accepted. Out of that, we create failure. We create suffering over self. We begin to believe that a
... See moreBrianna Wiest • 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Audre Lorde eloquently addressed her thoughts on white guilt at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference in 1981: I cannot hide my anger to spare you guilt, nor hurt feelings, nor answering anger; for to do so insults and trivializes all our efforts. Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of
... See moreRobin DiAngelo • White Fragility
“Life involves making a decision so the spirits can rush in”
- Sheila Heti
“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
“At least, I'm the kind of person who when it comes to, say, something like language or just communicating on a daily basis, I feel like I'm trying to put an ocean through a straw.”
― Björk
― Björk
Björk Quotes (Author of Stories for Kids Who Dare to Be Different)
Guilt is also a cheap substitute for paradox. The energy consumed by guilt would be far better invested in the courageous act of looking at two sets of truths that have collided in our personality. Guilt is also arrogant because it means we have taken sides in an issue and are sure that we are right. While this one-sidedness may be part of the
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