Feeling > Thinking
Without tapping the deeper bodily level, which is at first always unclear, one would stay stuck with the thoughts and feelings of what the problem appears to be at the beginning.
Eugene T. Gendlin • Focusing: How to Open Up Your Deeper Feelings and Intuition
Just getting in touch with one’s feelings often brings no change, just the same feeling over and over. One must let a larger, wider, unclear felt sense form.
Eugene T. Gendlin • Focusing: How to Open Up Your Deeper Feelings and Intuition
“It’s uncomfortable being two: me for me and me for others.”
A Breath of Life (Um sopro de vida), Clarice Lispector
I like writing that is unsummarizable, a kernel that cannot be condensed, that must be uttered exactly as it is.
Sarah Manguso • 300 Arguments
The startling findings were that people made better choices when not thinking at all, especially in complex consumer settings.
The researchers argued that this is because our unconscious processes are less constrained than conscious processes, which make huge demands on our cognitive system. Unconscious processes, such as intuition, function in ways
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I’m oppressed by the very self that encases me,