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"it's ironic that the world always asks for everything new and original and at the same time rejects anything that does not follow common patterns or rules"
Being alive in any meaningful sense is a balance of feeling and staying safe, and taking and overcoming risks. In safety, we have a vital place to rest, be comfortable and build the foundations of a life, and through risk we are expanded and grown... It is through taking risks that we expand our safety – widening the boundaries and limitations of o... See more
Donald Winnicott • Article
All history, development goes on through interaction and mutual influence, and even the most violent extremes of thought, of behaviour, become woven into the general texture of human life, as one strand of it. This process can be seen over and over again in history. In fact, it is as if what is real in human development — the main current of social... See more
This alteration of the real self requires tremendous emotional labor, which comes at a great psychological cost — we lose sense of who we are and where we stand. (Those of us who have had to take care of a parent’s emotional needs and feelings from a young age at the expense of feeling our own, at the expense of knowing our own, are particularly vu... See more
Maria Popova • Article
We cannot talk about work as calling without contending with the fact that there are those who have been denied choice, equity, and dignity in their work.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
choice as a precursor for meaning?
Identity and
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness,
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
if we embrace the beauty of all creation, we find our own beauty magnified. And what is shalom but dignity stretched out like a blanket over the cosmos?