An authentic life
“We are so used to disguising ourselves from others that we often end up by disguising ourselves from ourselves.”
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
often we oppress what has the possibility of liberating us. in other words, when we don’t process our own shit, the things we secretly crave, the freedom we long to embody, we police it in others, and ourselves.
Substack • if we're lucky, we never become 'good' humans
we are everything we haven’t integrated. of course, our integrated selves are at the fore-front of our being in our day to day, when we feel empowered. but, the moment we get activated or our feelings get hurt, we become our disintegrated selves. these disintegrated selves are all the things we haven’t felt in full, all the worlds we’ve had to... See more
Substack • if we're lucky, we never become 'good' humans
“By telling them just how to do it, I took the playing around away. The gradual figuring out that brings something alive to the activity makes it worthwhile and makes it transferable to other activities.”
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity or incompetence
Hanlon’s razor
Suffering Injustice
berkeleybuddhistpriory.org
In Zen, there’s a saying: When you point at another, three fingers point back at you. What you see in others - especially what triggers or disgusts you - is often an unrecognized fragment of yourself. Judgment reveals where you are still asleep. Every time you condemn another, you are projecting a shadow you have not yet integrated. The moment you... See more
Substack • The Mirror of Judgment
“So many of these thoughts and feelings live in our heads, which is not a great place for them to live. They need to come out somewhere. Once you can put them somewhere, you feel like you’re free.”
Emma Watson