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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... See more
Maria Popova • Article
via Interintellect
If you want to know if you’ve forgotten how to marvel, try staring at something beautiful for five minutes and see where your mind goes.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
Forget what they say—instead look at who they marry.
This is a sure-fire technique, and it tells you important things about people you can’t learn any other way. A person’s choice of a spouse—or if they aren’t married, their closest lifelong partner—is much more revealing than anything they say or do in public.
This choice tells you about their own
... See moretedgioia.substack.com • My 8 Best Techniques for Evaluating Character
Ask me what I want to be, but not before you ask me who I want to be. Ask me who I want to be, but not before you ask me the more searing question of who I am.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
— David Foster Wallace