Feeling > Thinking

Morgan Housel • How People Think
"Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final."
(Rainer Maria Rilke)
For the entirety of my young and skittish life, I had fixated upon my fear as if it were the most interesting thing about me, when actually it was the most mundane. In fact, my fear was probably the only 100 percent mundane thing about me. I had creativity within me that was original; I had a personality within me that was original; I had dreams an
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“It’s uncomfortable being two: me for me and me for others.”
A Breath of Life (Um sopro de vida), Clarice Lispector
“Being able to say ‘this is who I am’ when everything else feels uncertain, flimsy, prone to dissolution, may be the greatest comfort we have. Is anything more seductive, more empowering?/ To be alive is to subject oneself to the reality of being permeable/ so, while I welcome the pleasure of those moments when I feel like myself, I don’t think I w
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