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If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.
Richard Rohr
Joel Nessim added 16d ago
- The reason we’re so increasingly intolerant of long articles and why we skim them, why we skip forward even in a short video that reduces a 300-page book into a three-minute animation — even in that we skip forward — is that we’ve been infected with this kind of pathological impatience that makes us want to have the knowledge but not do the work of... See more
from Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age by Maria Popova
Joel Nessim added 1y ago
- Nietzsche said to "Never trust a thought you had indoors." bc small spaces = small thinking and depression is identical to staying inside all day
Joel Nessim added 1y ago
Joel Nessim added 1y ago
Joel Nessim added 1y ago
Joel Nessim added 1y ago
“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations
... See moreJoel Nessim added 9mo ago
- I have noticed that when all the lights are on, people tend to talk about what they are doing – their outer lives. Sitting round in candlelight or firelight, people start to talk about how they are feeling – their inner lives. They speak subjectively, they argue less, there are longer pauses.
To sit alone without any electric light is curiously crea... See morefrom The Guardian by Jeanette Winterson
Joel Nessim added 1y ago
- Repression isn’t some fanciful concept, it’s a simple consequence of psychological reward and reinforcement. Things you don’t like to think about, you think about less, and slowly they become distanced from your habitual thought patterns, until they almost never enter into your mind. Therefore, you can quite easily end up in a state where you say, ... See more
from How I Attained Persistent Self-Love, Or, I Demand Deep Okayness for Everyone by Sasha Chapin
Joel Nessim added 1y ago
Joel Nessim added 1y ago