enough with enough
by Alex Dobrenko · updated 9mo ago
enough with enough
Parenting and family stuff
good stuff from around the internet on raising good kids, building a family, etc.161 cards · by sari and
Alex Dobrenko added 1y ago
- Exhaustion is a status symbol because we desperately want to be seen, we desperately want to belong. We want to believe we’re lovable. In the absence of connection, there is always suffering, so we want to feel connected.
from Aloneness, Belonging, and the Paradox of Vulnerability, in Love and Creative Work by Maria Popova
Alex Dobrenko added 1y ago
- Let us assume for a moment that there can even be such a thing as enough, that state where one does not want for more because one has all that one needs. Fine. Enough exists, allegedly, but does anyone live there?
Alex Dobrenko added 1y ago
Simplicity is difficult because most of us are overcompensating for uncertainty. It takes a deep understanding of beauty and emotional awareness to look at something, long before most people would say it is complete, and say “This is enough.”
from #057 IRL <> URL by Alice Otieno
Alex Dobrenko added 1y ago
Alex Dobrenko added 1y ago
- Today’s society is no longer Foucault’s disciplinary world of hospitals, madhouses, prisons, barracks, and factories. It has long been replaced by another regime, namely a society of fitness studios, office towers, banks, airports, shopping malls, and genetic laboratories. Twenty-first-century society is no longer a disciplinary society, but rather... See more
from Byung-Chul Han, Beyond Disciplinary Society by Vertebrata
Alex Dobrenko added 1y ago
- It’s a rather simple question that quickly gets to the core of someone’s sense of well-being and legitimacy: did your childhood leave you feeling that you were – on balance – OK as you were? Or did you somewhere along the way derive an impression that you needed to be extraordinary in order to deserve a place on the earth? And, to raise an associat... See more
from Overcoming the Need to Be Exceptional - The School Of Life
Alex Dobrenko added 1y ago
Human life is not a competition in which everyone places somewhere between one to eight billion. That’s because each person has different capacities, aims, relationships, projects and identities. These are all relevant to deciding what a good life is for them.
- NYT magazine, The Ethicist, Kwame Anthony Appiah
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