Yufa

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I am a mess of contradictions. There are many ways in which I am doing feminism wrong, at least according to the way my perceptions of feminism have been warped by being a woman… I want to be in charge and respected and in control, but I want to surrender, completely, in certain aspects of my life.[…]My success, such as it is, is supposed to be... See more

Maria Popova • Bad Feminist: Roxane Gay on the Complexities and Blind Spots of the Equality Movement

The Antidote to the Irreversibility of Life: Hannah Arendt on What Forgiveness Really Means

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culture and

As creatures made of time, we live in the present and the past and the future all at once, continually shaken by all the fears and hopes, all the anxieties and anticipations, that are the price we pay for our majestic hippocampus — that crowning glory of a consciousness capable of referencing its memories and experiences in the past, capable of... See more

Maria Popova • Losing Love, Finding Love, and Living with the Fragility of It All

Bonni - Empathy-Driven Team Building

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recruiting and

There’s a real tension in love — at the beginning of love, particularly — between the desire to be honest about who one is and the desire to win the affection of another person. Of course, ideally, we can both be honest and loved for being honest. That’s the dream.

Brené Brown • Aloneness, Belonging, and the Paradox of Vulnerability, in Love and Creative Work – The Marginalian

Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us, and regarding what we see with an open, kind and loving heart, is what I call Radical Acceptance. If we are holding back from any part of our experience, if our heart shuts out any part of who we are and what we feel, we are fueling the fears and feelings of separation that sustain the trance of... See more