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CG Jung, Psychology and Alchemy. https://t.co/A9wbfitVJS

YOUTH: Does that mean you dropped out of competition? That you somehow accepted defeat? PHILOSOPHER: No. I withdrew from places that are preoccupied with winning and losing. When one is trying to be oneself, competition will inevitably get in the way.

Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

Non-self-coercion is therefore all about self-awareness and -acknowledgment and consequently locking in life goals and hobbies that are driven by pleasure rather than pain.

Thomas Klaffke • Pleasure Activism

Nós, principalmente, que vivemos uma vida interior que só está à mostra para nós, devemos ter estabelecido um modelo interior que seja a pedra de toque de nossos atos, pelo qual ora nos lisonjeamos, ora nos castigamos. Tenho minhas leis e meu tribunal para julgar a mim mesmo, e a eles me dirijo mais que a outro lugar. Restrinjo minhas ações em funç

Michel de Montaigne • Os ensaios: Uma seleção (Portuguese Edition)

To dedicate myself to forgetting myself.

The first thing to do is keep silent—to abolish audiences and learn to be your own judge. To keep a balance between an active concern for the body and an attentive awareness of being alive. To give up all feeling that the world owes you a living and devote yourself to achieving two kinds of freedom: freedom from money and freedom from your own vani... See more

Chloë Zofia • From the Diary of Albert Camus

The Japanese have a beautiful saying for this—a maxim that has survived through atomic bombs, economic collapse, and countless tsunamis: Shikata ga nai. “There’s nothing to be done, so move on.” Move forward. It takes a bit of self-deception to mind-wipe the regret and a truckload of moxie to push through the work of regaining control. But sometime... See more

Bobby Hundreds • This Is Not a T-Shirt

One of the easiest ways of controlling the ego is not giving it the things it craves.

Stuart Wilde • Infinite Self: 33 Steps to Reclaiming Your Inner Power

You should make an effort gradually to free yourself from slavery to any habit, be it of dress or food or anything else. Many people feel they have to eat meat three times a day. Others are convinced they should eat nothing but lettuce and nuts; that if they vary their diet they will become ill! Such beliefs are a form of slavery.