Conditio humana
“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.” - Mark Twain
There are countless untold stories of people caring for the young, the old, the sick, and the disabled. We like to romanticize this as beautiful, inspiring, and “proper”, but dealing with neurodegenerative diseases of the elderly is thankless, depressing, and exhausting.
Artur Piszek • The World Runs on Invisible Labor
“There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.” — Albert Camus, “Notebooks (1942–1951)”
Studying how a community relates to the passage of time can, after all, offer a window into a culture’s values and lifeways, and reveal how societies hash out relationships between the presently living and those yet unborn who may inhabit the distant future.
Vincent Ialenti • Keeping Time Into the Great Beyond | NOEMA
If there is such a thing as human perfection, it seems to emerge precisely from how we handle the imperfection that is everywhere, especially our own. – Richard Rohr
Writer James Baldwin on hate as a defense mechanism: "I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."
Trust tends to break down when there’s an unspoken perception of the other side not taking responsibility for their behaviours. This perception turns into resentment, which eventually shows up as a lack of trust. And of course, when trust breaks down, so does communication.
When you notice a breakdown in trust, try to uncover the specific responsibi
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Getting found is about being findable.
Tina Mai • Kernel | Chaos Theory
“"Anxiety about what one feels might also be seen as the spread, and the vulgarization, of the Romantic “quest for personality.” Such a quest has not been conducted in a social vacuum; it is the conditions of ordinary life which have propelled people into this Romantic search for self-realization. Further, it has been beyond the scope of literary s
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