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It involves feeling your fear of emptiness and loneliness, your yearning for love, and your denial of death.
David Deida • Finding God Through Sex: Awakening the One of Spirit Through the Two of Flesh
According to the first tradition, we experience the thing called hüzün when we have invested too much in worldly pleasures and material gain; the implication is, “If you hadn’t involved yourself so deeply in this transitory world, if you were a good and true Muslim, you wouldn’t care so much about your worldly losses.”
Orhan Pamuk • Istanbul (Vintage International)
Seriality is the dispersal of collectivity into an aggregate of discrete individuals who relate to each other only on the basis of hollow or narcissistic identities.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
Denials leave the self feeling incomplete.
Ceanne DeRohan • Right Use of Will: Healing and Evolving the Emotional Body
Our feelings of unworthiness and alienation from others give rise to various forms of suffering. For some, the most glaring expression is addiction. It may be to alcohol, food or drugs. Others feel addicted to a relationship, dependent on a particular person or people in order to feel they are complete and that life is worth living. Some try to
... See moreTara Brach • Radical Acceptance
nihilism;
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
It is the sense of distrusting your own responses, questioning the validity of your feelings, and giving power to another’s information over your own.
Toko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home

