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If you're anything like me, you think new years resolutions are stupid.
Because most people go about changing their lives in the completely wrong way. They create these resolutions because everyone else does – we create a superficial meaning out of status games – but they don’t meet the requirements for true change, which goes a lot deeper than
... See moreRemember the words of Feynman: “what one fool can do, another can”.
Ego dissolution is an incredibly difficult concept to understand intellectually, but once you feel it, you cannot go back.
It is the moment the border between you and everyone else stops making sense. One day, you notice (maybe quite suddenly) that what you call “you” is not a solid thing. It is an ongoing event. A... See more
instagram.comFreud's cure through love did not mean any happy result that might spring from the love of a therapist for his patient. Quite the reverse....The cure through love...depends upon the therapist's finding in the patient a quality that can be admired, hoped, or wished for. It is the 'recognition of a promise.'
Making Contact: Leston Havens on the Uses of Language in Psychotherapy
Simile
How does a simile work?
— Place something next to something
and say, here . (The here is where
the somethings touch.) The rainy
night, like Debussy.
There on the shelf, a piece
of grapevine in a blue
vase. The world is so much
like itself it can be hard to see.
Tomorrow I will try again
to understand: what is a simile?
All night, all day: the rain
come... See more
How does a simile work?
— Place something next to something
and say, here . (The here is where
the somethings touch.) The rainy
night, like Debussy.
There on the shelf, a piece
of grapevine in a blue
vase. The world is so much
like itself it can be hard to see.
Tomorrow I will try again
to understand: what is a simile?
All night, all day: the rain
come... See more
Poem of the week: Simile by Éireann Lorsung
It is neither wealth nor poverty that keeps people out of the kingdom— it is pride .
Just a moment...
Gall's Law is one of those statements that just keeps hitting harder and more deeply the more time I spend with it. At first it seemed false, then a truism, then an interesting insight, and now a foundational belief about the world. https://t.co/9gfnaeAPqH
“The tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness. Since all of us have this tendency to a greater or lesser degree, all of us are mentally ill to a greater or lesser degree.”- M. Scott Peck