Sara Campbell
@tinyrevver
i never give up
Sara Campbell
saracampbell.co
Refuse to be irrelevant. You have a voice and you have the right to use it.
Dr Sharon Blackie • A manifesto for thriving at midlife
How I Tamed My Envy of Almost Everyone But Especially Elizabeth Gilbert
Kirsten Powersopen.substack.com
Envy is a sign
I found out early that you can throw yourself away, missing what you’ve lost.
Tana French • The Likeness
“Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.
But there is no reward at
... See more‘ From my first meetings with World Weary Woman, it was clear that she could work. She could analyze, psychologize. But she had not learned how to play ... It is in pausing to connect with her own inner wisdom that World Weary Woman learns to create ... to cultivate what brings joy, to savour her connection with cosmos. Thus she transforms her... See more
Dr Sharon Blackie • The psychology of midlife
From World Weary Women: Her Wound and Transformation by Cara Barker
Where Fromm joins Freud is in asserting that the very development—consciousness—that brought about our rise and then our fall is the only one that can release us from this pervasive sense of aloneness. The problem is that the consciousness bestowed on us is just barely sufficient; if we are to achieve inner freedom, it is necessary that we become... See more
“Put on the Diamonds”, by Vivian Gornick
Raising consciousness as a cure for loneliness
"It is not enough for a man to feel the divine flame burning in him; unless he goes into the concentrated, slogging business of learning the techniques of expression, his genius will be of no use to anyone." —Oswald Chambers
