Relationship with self

One of the great benefits of writing down the events in your life is that you will begin to see your existence as a grand story.

Schmerz ist Bindung. Wer jeden schmerzhaften Zustand ablehnt, ist bindungsunfähig. Intensive Bindungen, die schmerzen könnten, werden heute gemieden. Alles spielt sich ab in einer palliativen Komfortzone. In seinem Buch »Lob der Liebe« weist Alain Badiou auf den Werbespruch eines Dating-Portals hin: »Es ist ganz leicht, verliebt zu sein, ohne zu

Byung-Chul Han • Palliativgesellschaft

You may leave this life at any moment: have this possibility in your mind in all that you do or say or think. —Meditations 2.11

What made the hours pass like minutes when you were a child? Herein lies the key to your earthly pursuits.” — Carl Jung

Stuff happens. Your stories about it determine whether it’s manageable or not.

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The Antidote to Imposter Syndrome | The Curiosity Chronicle

“A great way to understand yourself is to seriously reflect on everything you find irritating in others.” – Kevin Kelly

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“That was all a man needed: hope. It was a lack of hope that discouraged a man.” — Charles Bukowski, “Factotum”

“"Anxiety about what one feels might also be seen as the spread, and the vulgarization, of the Romantic “quest for personality.” Such a quest has not been conducted in a social vacuum; it is the conditions of ordinary life which have propelled people into this Romantic search for self-realization. Further, it has been beyond the scope of literary