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She Decided
“Her nervous system had been through so much. She decided to spend the rest of her life calming the inflammation. Thoughts, feelings, memories, behavior, relations. She soothed it all with deep, Loving breaths and gentle practices. The softer she became…
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To Take the Measure
“To take the measure of something does not guarantee that we will understand its meaning, in fact, it may very well prevent us from doing so.” — L.M. Sacasas, ”Whose Time? Which Temporality?”
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Work for Pay
“It followed my original idea about what making a living was about—which is that I don’t want to work for pay, but I want to be paid for my work.” — Leonard Cohen
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The Mask
“Sometimes it’s not the people who change, it’s the mask that falls off.” — Haruki Murakami
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Opportunities for Self-Deception
“I’m interested in memory because it’s a filter through which we see our lives, and because it’s foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I’m more interested in what people tell themselves…
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Nothing Happens
“What happens when you die? Well, we’re not completely sure. But the evidence seems to suggest that nothing happens. You’re just dead, your brain stops working, and then you’re not around to ask annoying questions anymore.” — Ernest Cline, Ready…
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Uncomfortable, but Not Dangerous
“These thoughts are uncomfortable, but not dangerous,” — Debra Kissen, How to Stop Feeling Anxious Right Now
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Mind Ur Step
So often on a plane train or in a carBut always on the way back to where you areDo you still careDo you still care
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Stay with the Difficult Problem
“The system doesn’t stay with the difficult problem that produces unpleasant feelings. It’s conditioned somehow to move as fast as it can toward more pleasant feelings, without actually facing the things that’s making the unpleasant feeling.” — David Bohm
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A Stranger to Oneself
“The truth, forever, for everybody, is that one is a stranger to oneself, and that one must deal with this stranger day in and day out—that one, in fact, is forced to create, as distinct from invent, oneself.” — James…
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Survived
“When the chorus sing that the ‘name of the land will vanish’ and ‘Troy no longer exists’, they are singing for an audience for whom Troy’s name has survived.” — P.E. Easterling on Euripides’s Trojan Woman, from ‘Form and Performance in Greek Tragedy’, The Cambridge Companion to…