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To desire is to resist the forces that would rather we be numbed out, efficient, and manageable. It is to say: I will choose intensity over indifference, invention over appeasement.
maja • in defence of yearning
how to love trying
youtube.comYour main identity gets heavy with significance and expectation; you lose all spontaneity.
Henrik Karlsson • Pseudonyms Lets You Practice Agency
For better or worse, your face is shaped by the masks you wear.
Henrik Karlsson • Pseudonyms Lets You Practice Agency
And though there were moments where I feared that the stress would break me, there was something very profound about experiencing, again and again, that problems that seemed unsolvable and overwhelming to me were solvable, always solvable. It changed my priors.
Henrik Karlsson • On Agency
I had conflated “being a writer” with “having a publisher” and “getting a salary from my writing.” These are not the same thing.
Henrik Karlsson • On Agency
"A deep sense of self and identity is really only achieved through digging into the parts of you that don't make sense."
“A lack of human and spiritual connection causes much of our pain… a great deal of this suffering is linked to our attachment to specific identities and the social status we believe we get from them.
It’s perfectly fine if you are an administrator to administrate, just don’t get caught up in thinking you are an administrator… If you are a junkie,
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