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He likens ritual to the raft that takes you from one side of a river—one phase of life—to the other. “Ritual provides the exclamation points for our lives, more than it does the periods. Ritual is the wrapping that makes even the most outrageous ideals believable.”
Ada Calhoun • Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give
Sullivan believed that our struggles were interactional (meaning “relational”). He went so far as to say, “It’s the mark of a senior clinician that he or she is the same person in their living room that they are in their office.” We can’t teach patients to be relational if we aren’t relational with them.
Lori Gottlieb • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
LOOK AT THE CLOUDS; WHAT DO YOU SEE? (III): I see that we make each other more visible. / I see effortless grace. / I see the universe is listening. / I see the souls of the lost swirling all around me. / I see that I’m on one island and you’re on another. / I see my face staring back at me. / I see through to your core. / I see the struggle... See more
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Descartes Was Wrong: ‘A Person Is a Person Through Other Persons’ – Abeba Birhane | Aeon Ideas
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A beautiful quote from John O’Donahue, on friendship and conversations:
... See moreWhen was the last time you had a great conversation? A conversation that wasn’t just two intersecting monologues, but when you overheard yourself saying things you never knew you knew, that you heard yourself receiving from somebody words that found places within you that you th