the melancholies
... See moreIf you do not learn to meet your needs directly, you will learn to meet them neurotically. You will develop routines [and] relationships… designed to help you get just enough of what you want without having to ask or it… but never enough to be fulfilled. We must extract whatever [fuels] our… neurotic compulsions… [and] dace that. Otherwise we can w
The more severed we are from ourselves, the more havoc we wreak on those we love. We hate the people that dare to follow their desires, they become the scapegoat to our misery.
— quote pulled from Anna Howard’s Wild Geese Podcast “Creating a Digital Garden to End My Doom Scrolling”
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Poetry gives the griever not release from grief but companionship in grief.
Donald Hall • The Third Thing by Donald Hall | Poetry Magazine
When you're happy you enjoy the music but when you're sad you understand the lyrics and that is life and a nutshell. When things are good you're just moving along to the rhythm oblivious to the depth of the all. But when life gets dark when the weight of it presses, on your chest, every word, every note, suddenly becomes your story. It's no longer
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Sometimes I feel like I’m sitting all alone at the bottom of a well.
Haruki Murakami • Novelist as a Vocation: The master storyteller on writing and creativity
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