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Anybody who tells you not to take the things that hurt you so seriously is not interested in your healing. Pain resolves when we attend to it, not when we ignore it. ā @DeanAbbott For a long time, I struggled with forgiveness. I used to think I was someone who forgives easily, until a burnout that happened to me transpired into what seemed like an almost impossible task to resolve. It was a warā¦
You will hear many people saying: āWhen I am fifty I shall retire into leisure; when I am sixty I shall give up public duties.ā And what guarantee do you have of a longer life? Who will allow your course to proceed as you arrange it? Arenāt you ashamed to keep for yourself just the remnants of your life, and to devote to wisdom only that time which cannot be spent on any business? How late it isā¦
Men used to make vows. they promised to love someone until death and meant it. they named children after gods they hoped the child would live to honor. they stood at graves and swore revenge over sacred bread. at some point the vow died. we all decided quietly that meaning what you say was too much to ask ā @lichthauch The people who denigrate you for being obsessed are the ones whose lives areā¦
so much relational damage is caused by the need to appear to be āthe good guyā in the situation. if you can be like ālisten I get this might seem selfish and unfair but this is how I really feelā youāre often being far more altruistic āAva (@noampomsky) People-pleasers are not long-term thinkers. They are overly focused on the present - how the other person will feel, how they will feel, and howā¦
Everyone wants to be someone influential, but can you even influence yourself? Can you take the same advice that you've given to someone and apply it to yourself? Can you follow through with your own advice? Or do you say shit like "it doesn't apply to me" or "it's too difficult". Talk is cheap. If you can't influence yourself, and you're an "influencer", you're not suffering from imposterā¦
Photo by Santiago Lacarta on Unsplash My high school girlfriend gave me a sort of fancy journal for my birthday and inscribed it with this line from Archimedes: āGive me a place to stand and I will move the earth.ā I remember being angry that she didnāt get me a real present. I still think about it ā(@baltic_dan) There was a period of time when I kept dreaming about food, and my then-analyst saidā¦
Not everybody has virtues, but everybody has the low animal instincts, the basic primitive caveman suggestibility, the suspicions and vicious traits of the savage. ā Carl Jung , C.G. Jung Speaking, p. 134 Self-righteousness comes in different forms. Sometimes they come off as "I'm not like the other girls" , and sometimes, they come out when someone commits a terrible, horrendous crime. And theā¦
Photo by Jomarc Nicolai Cala on Unsplash Minecraft proves that abolishing child labour was a mistake. The children yearn for the mines. — FroggenĆ¾uÅæiaÅæt (@Froggenthusias1) In 2022, a tweet by @Froggenthusias1 went viral and it became a meme . And it reminded me of Farmville a few years back, when it was the in thing and people would get so addicted to planting and stealing their neighbours'ā¦
My brother is a small-scale farmer and one of his complaints is how people lack nuance when discussing complex subjects - this is bad, this is good. This creates an all or nothing, black and white thinking that if left unchecked, can lead to more misinformation and careless practices. When you talk about personality types with people, they like to ask if their type is bad or good. It's an innocentā¦
The Pueblo Indians told me that all Americans are crazy, and of course I was somewhat astonished and asked them why. They said, 'Well, they say they think in their heads. No sound man thinks in the head. We think in the heart'. ā Carl Jung, Analytical Psychology: Its Theory & Practice When I was younger, I used to think I was a rather logical person (compared to most people). I used to prideā¦