Relationships
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Relationships
“The aim of each thing which we do is to make our lives and the lives of our children richer and more possible.”
— Audre Lorde
"What most of us are waiting for is someone else to really think you’re okay with all your warts, just the way you are." - Charlotte Joko Beck
Sara Campbell on Substack
The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age
John Heider • 2 highlights
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Our generation’s collective consciousness in regards to love is a complex/spoiled one. Through globalization and over-stimuli we are drowning in contradicting self-imposed subjective expectations and demands towards love.
To have → love.
To want → desire.
Imagination, admiration, novelty, and vulnerability play protagonist roles in the feeling of drawness towards a partner.
Neediness is an anti-aphrodisiac – anything resembling parenthood.
The erotic as an antidote to death, mechanism to survive during the holocaust. The erotic mind is full of contradictions, love them <3
Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments.
— Neil Strauss