recovery

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.

― James Baldwin

Ayishat Akanbi • Sentences That Have Shaped Me

"For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn't understand growth, it would look like complete destruction."

—Cynthia Occelli

When drawing, the trick is to spend more time looking at the thing you are trying to draw than at your picture. This is true for writing, too.

Bruce Kasanoff • Henrik Karlsson on Substack

Thomas del Vasto (soul/acc) • Tweet

Addiction is a progressive narrowing

of the things that bring you pleasure.

Happiness is a progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure. The former emerges passively.

The latter takes work.

Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. • Tweet

“True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.”

Nikos Kazantzakis

maybe "lie constantly to everyone for convenience" is a bad cultural value that causes more problems than we realize

danb • Tweet

Humility isn't false modesty. True humility is feeling the fullness of your desire for the spotlight, and choosing not to be noticed

Vivid Void • Tweet

I have known many people who spent years in analysis and emerged with a detailed understanding of their major psychodynamics, yet experienced what they uncovered as shameful admissions rather than as expressions of their essential humanity in all its ordinary depravity and virtue

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