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Johari Window
The Johari window is a technique designed to help people better understand their relationship with themselves and others. In the exercise, someone picks a number of adjectives from a list, choosing ones they feel describe their own personality. The subject’s…
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Reach Dow to Hell
“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.” — Carl Jung
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The Other Side of Silence
“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heartbeat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.…
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Beware
“A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March” — Brutus, Julius Caesar (1953)
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Pi
“A bell cannot tell time, but it can be moved in just such a way as to say twelve o’clock—similarly, a man cannot calculate infinite numbers, but he can be moved in just such a way as to say pi.”…
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I, I Mean Us
“when i say i, i mean usbut i’m not sure it’s my place to talk for you” — Kai Jenrette
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A Hole in the Status Quo
“Our anger was a fury sparked by profound injustices. Wrongs that deserved ire. And with that rage, we ripped a hole in the status quo.” ― Judith Heumann, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
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A Thin Veneer of Civilization
“What we assume in other people is what we get out of them. Our view of human nature tends to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we assume that people are fundamentally selfish, then that’s how they will behave. If we…