Whoa

according to me: you will fail to integrate so long as you look inwards integration requires you to change your context, renegotiate your existing relationships, remove some, and bring in new ones (eg you may need to move to a different job)

EVERYTHING THAT LIVES GROWS INSIDE SOMETHING ELSE so if you want to change yourself, change whet you're inside of

This one got me good! “Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.” ―St. Augustine of Hippo Sebastian from Master Class dropped this in circle and it is what I have been wanting to find words to say.

The most profound paragraph in all of Schopenhauer, at least to me

Oscar Wilde: "It's absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."

Thich Nhat Hanh: "Understanding is love's other name. If you don't understand, you can't love.”

Learning that Everyone must choose one of two pains: The pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

It took me years of marriage to see this: You can’t be intimate and in control at the same time.