weirdly insightful sentences

sentences (or small paragraphs) that make my brain happy

information is free because saturating your cognition & preventing you from taking action is the product

orph • Tweet

It can, in some cases, be a humungous act of love and surrender to allow ourselves to be misunderstood by those who we most wish could or would try to understand us.

Heidi Priebe • Tweet

it is easy to understand God if you do not have to explain him.

Simon Sarris • Tweet

Carl Rogers On Becoming a Person (1961)

...I have almost invariably found that the very feeling which has seemed to me most private, most personal, and hence most incomprehensible by others, has turned out to be an expression for which there is a resonance in many other people.

Life is made in the small moments that our minds forget but our hearts remember.

Every solution to “systemic failure” that promises control gets packaged as a product that re-enrolls you into something deeper than what you were escaping.

kyla scanlon • The Ozempicization of Everything

belief capitalism values narrative adhesion, the ability to keep enough people inside a story long enough that the story stays load-bearing.

kyla scanlon • The Ozempicization of Everything

“A mind that’s all logic is like a knife that’s all blade. It cuts the hand that wields it.” —Rabindranath Tagore

“As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.”

-Nelson Mandela