Sublime

From the developmental view, Darren was entering emotional adulthood, which includes the ability to discriminate between feelings and behavior. He recognized that his history would likely give rise to familiar, difficult emotions and that he did not have to allow these emotions to run his behavior or control his life. He began to live a life that w

Such a procedure, however, must make use of the specifically human capacity for self-detachment inherent in a sense of humor.

We are never more (and sometimes less) than the co-authors of our own narratives. —Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory

There’s a lot of alienation; a lot of disaster porn. We need grieving rituals so we can go through our despair together, so we can face the losses we know are coming.

the attempt to rebuild a framework for interpreting the world, even if it was a framework of infinite fragmentation, would be something that both Freud and Nietzsche would recognize as the activity of self-construction.

by building your acceptance skills you can begin to listen to your painful memories and cope with current distress in a less defensive, impulsive way.

The more we identify with a limited and fixed version of our self, the more vulnerable this self is to hurt and harm, to the effects of change, accident and turbulence. If it has no flexibility, it is fragile.

So many people insist on being either pro-Freudian or anti-Freudian, pro-scientific-psychology or anti-scientific-psychology, etc. In my opinion all such loyalty-positions are silly. Our job is to integrate these various truths into the whole truth, which should be our only loyalty.