everything is a conversation

notes on being in constructive dialogue with reality, instead of staying mired in delusional rigidity

I have known many people who spent years in analysis and emerged with a detailed understanding of their major psychodynamics, yet experienced what they uncovered as shameful admissions rather than as expressions of their essential humanity in all its ordinary depravity and virtue

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“People listen better if they feel that you have understood them. They tend to think that those who understand them are intelligent and sympathetic people whose own opinions may be worth listening to. So if you want the other side to appreciate your interests, begin by demonstrating that you appreciate theirs.”

― Roger Fisher, Getting to Yes:

one of the hardest habits i've had to un-learn as a writer is the desire to head off any counterargument i can see coming -- it's hard for me to write something knowing it will be misunderstood by some people, but that preventing it will water down the writing

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”

-John Steinbeck

“But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.”

-Haruki Murakami

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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.

what is my purpose in life? vs. what brings me alive at THIS point in my life? What if purpose is just a moment-to-moment conversation with your soul? I love this; via @corymuscara

Lani x.com

“If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.”

— Mooji

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