When you're removed from your environment what do you still hold dear?
It’s better to hurt and live than to exist in a state of numbness forever.
To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.
None of us need be perfect, nor exercise saintly compassion, nor reach any emotional or spiritual benchmark before we can say we're on the healing path. All we need is readiness to participate in whatever process wants to unfold within us so that healing can happen naturally.
The nature of our nature is not to be particularly constrained by our nature. — Gabor Mate, Myth of Normal
Destruction in the face of progress is not only possible, but an efficient way to get rid of excess.
Taste builds an objective standard for very subjective topics.
— David Hoang
Productive exploration requires the application of skilled personal judgment to chasing hunches and interesting problems without narrow material and objective constraints. It is generally unfair and wasteful for this to be anything but voluntarily self-funded, though some well-designed research institutions can effectively simulate productive leisure and accelerate the exploration process. Thus, speculative exploration is a special duty of those with means.
– Wolf Tivy
like the virus which produced variegated tulips of a rare beauty, infection can be creative too
– Anna Riddler
The lives of women will not change until the men come along.
– Esther Perel