Helena Bowen
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Helena Bowen
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Austin Kleon • 100 quotes that helped me write
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Austin Kleon • 100 quotes that helped me write
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Austin Kleon • 100 quotes that helped me write
I don’t think back on those days too often, but with Matthew Perry’s death, the memories have coiled around me because of how honest he was about his own addiction. I want to tell you something about addiction: No matter who it is or what substance that person is hooked on, loneliness is at its root. For whatever reason — and I have no theory as to... See more
Opinion | Matthew Perry and the Loneliness of Addiction
We're bad at creativity in our culture because we're obsessed with productivity. Creativity is slow and curious. Productivity considers every experiment and exploration like losing your way.
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Addiction, she says, “is always a story that has already been told, because it inevitably repeats itself, because it grinds down—ultimately, for everyone—to the same demolished and reductive and recycled core: Desire. Use. Repeat.”
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
In Stanton Peele’s useful book Love and Addiction, he makes the insightful point that “addiction is not about relatedness.” Addiction makes love impossible. Most addicts are primarily concerned with acquiring and using their drug, whether it be alcohol, cocaine, heroin, sex, or shopping. Hence, addiction is both a consequence of widespread
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As a clinician later described it to her, addiction always ends up as a “narrowing of repertoire”: life contracts to a fixation on what you can’t live without, and the rhythms of a day, a life, are engineered to secure this thing that never satisfies, is never enough.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
