the good life

At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice, and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.”

— Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”

While our brains naturally conserve energy (the "law of less work"), studies consistently show a powerful link between embracing optimal, meaningful challenges and greater life satisfaction—what researchers call eudaimonic well-being (fulfillment through growth and purpose), which often surpasses the fleeting pleasure of mere comfort (hedonic well-... See more

The acceleration of contemporary life also plays a role in this lack of being. The society of laboring and achievement is not a free society. It generates new constraints. Ultimately, the dialectic of master and slave does not yield a society where everyone is free and capable of leisure, too. Rather, it leads to a society of work in which the mast... See more

sanity, in this view, is just compliance that has been culturally sanctioned. it is not a measure of truth, it is a measure of usefulness.

so when you feel like you’re losing it and you can’t keep up or when you spiral when the world feels uninhabitable, it might not be because something is wrong with you. it might be because your body is trying to ... See more

“My argument with so much of psychoanalysis, is the preconception that suffering is a mistake, or a sign of weakness, or a sign even of illness, when in fact, possibly the greatest truths we know have come out of people's suffering; that the problem is not to undo suffering or to wipe it off the face of the earth but to make it inform our lives, in

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