relationships
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
Why is this? Are we so reactionary as creatures that we do not change unless someone else forces us to? Are we like pool balls, sitting forever in a fixed pattern until an interpersonal cue ball blasts us into motion? I think not, although we do suffer a kind of inner inertia when circumstances precipitate a transition.
But it is not as mechanical a... See more
But it is not as mechanical a... See more
From William Bridges On Transitions
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Descartes Was Wrong: ‘A Person Is a Person Through Other Persons’ – Abeba Birhane | Aeon Ideas
Sally Daviesaeon.coHe 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
Found on Cosmos
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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
