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we can become attached to our own sense of heroic renunciation. This involves the ego making a show of its own sacrifice, and laying the foundation for a new brand of self-centeredness. Extremes of asceticism, or an impulsive desire to become, or become known as, saintly or selfless may be self-centered parodies of the truly religious life.
Barry Magid • Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Guide
a skillful means of enabling one to realize, concretely and vividly, the absurd vicious circle of desiring not to desire, or of trying to get rid of selfishness by oneself.
Alan Watts • The Way of Zen
Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains:
Marcus Aurelius • Meditations
REJECT TANTALIZING GIFTS
Stephen Hanselman • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
The Case Against Budget Culture
Self-binding is the term to describe Jacob’s act of throwing out his machine. It is the way we intentionally and willingly create barriers between ourselves and our drug of choice in order to mitigate compulsive overconsumption.
Anna Lembke • Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
free yourself from the burden of self-flagellation.
Elaine Lin Hering • Unlearning Silence
Many of us operate out of same, guilt, fear in every area of our lives. We punish ourselves because we hate our bodies. We punish ourselves with restriction. We go all in to mitigate the shame, but then spiral after the motivation wears off, back into shame.