Ian Zen
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“I think balance is for people who don't know why they're here.”
― Recursion
― Recursion
“Without a healthy emotional life, a relationship is not a relationship; it is a social arrangement where no intimacy or connection exists.”
― The Completion Process: The Practice of Putting Yourself Back Together Again
― The Completion Process: The Practice of Putting Yourself Back Together Again
“When looting becomes a way of life for a group in society, over time it creates a legal system that legalizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. Claude-Frédéric Bastiat,
Economist and Politician”
― Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete For You
Economist and Politician”
― Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete For You
“The truth is that an enlightened person has made a practice of releasing all resistance from his or her being. It’s not that they never experience conflict or pain. It’s that they are willing to be open to experiencing conflict and pain.”
― The Completion Process: The Practice of Putting Yourself Back Together Again
― The Completion Process: The Practice of Putting Yourself Back Together Again
“I seriously doubt that the smile is our species’s “happy” face, as is often stated in books about human emotions. Its background is much richer, with meanings other than cheeriness. Depending on the circumstances, the smile can convey nervousness, a need to please, reassurance to anxious others, a welcoming attitude, submission, amusement, attraction, and so on. Are all these feelings captured by calling them “happy”? Our labels grossly simplify emotional displays, like the way we give each emoticon a single meaning. Many of us now use smiley or frowny faces to punctuate text messages, which suggests that language by itself is not as effective as advertised. We feel the need to add nonverbal cues to prevent a peace offer from being mistaken for an act of revenge, or a joke from being taken as an insult. Emoticons and words are poor substitutes for the body itself, though: through gaze direction, expressions, tone of voice, posture, pupil dilation, and gestures, the body is much better than
language at communicating a wide range of meanings.”
― Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
language at communicating a wide range of meanings.”
― Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
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