Feeling > Thinking
As much as we know about how crazy, weird, talented, and insightful people can be, we are blind to perhaps 99.99999999% of it. The most prolific over-sharers disclose maybe a thousandth of one percent of what they’ve been through and what they’re thinking.
Morgan Housel • How People Think
I’m oppressed by the very self that encases me,
Fernando Pessoa • The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Modern Classics)
And if there’s one thing I know it’s that writing comes out of tension, tension between what’s inside and what’s outside.
Rachel Cusk • Outline: A Novel (Outline Trilogy Book 1)
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
“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
... See moreEloghosa Osunde • A Long Talk: conversation between Eloghosa Osunde & Joshua Segun-Lean.
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
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