Hope Cornelius
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Hope Cornelius
Looking back over your entire life story with all its chapters, scenes, and challenges, do you discern a central theme?
Bruce Feiler • Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age
At the heart of agency lies a willingness to question defaults. To be agentic, you have to treat “how things are supposed to be done” as just one option among many.
https://open.substack.com/pub/escapingflatland/p/agency?r=3smee&utm_medium=ios
Trauma victims cannot recover until they become familiar with and befriend the sensations in their bodies. Being frightened means that you live in a body that is always on guard.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
The main character in the book, The Nix, is at the mall, as a child, and is overwhelmed by the consumerism and the excess, and the way the mall tells you what you wants and then presents that thing to you. He says, “The mall’s overwhelmingness was meant to replace your imagination. Forget trying to dream your desires; the mall has already dreamed... See more
Enjoying the little things...Ideas of meaning and purpose exist on a huge scale, but they remove us from the value in the everyday. Instead of worrying about what it all “means” in the face of eternity ask: what if I only had today? This wakes you up to the preciousness of pointless and forgettable moments.