Seki
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“This question goes way beyond my own little episodes of transcending overcaffeination and melancholy. It applies, in principle, to all negative feelings: fears, anxieties, loathing, self-loathing, and more. Imagine if our negative feelings, or at least lots of them, turned out to be illusions, and we could dispel them by just contemplating them from a particular vantage point.”
― The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
― The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
“Democratic politics was many things, among them a kind of seduction, documenting once again the interplay of aggression with libido. It awakened and often gratified the electorate’s hostile impulses, or at the very least, its desire for aggressive self-assertion. At the same time, it yoked followers to their leaders to produce a community rife with erotic overtones. Love for one’s favorite politician was intensified by hatred for the opposition.”
― The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud, Volume 3: The Cultivation of Hatred
― The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud, Volume 3: The Cultivation of Hatred
“It doesn’t matter how much the rest of us love you; if you hate yourself, the self-loathing destroys everything.”
― Kiss the Dead
― Kiss the Dead
“Awakening to faith is not a one-time event, but a continuously unfolding reality. The journey of faith is not a race, but a marathon of love that each person walks at a different pace.”
― Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam
― Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam
“The truth is that the angels of anxiety — those overpowering forces for change in politics, economics, science, morals, and social policy — were at the same time agents for self-confidence.”
― The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud, Volume 3: The Cultivation of Hatred
― The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud, Volume 3: The Cultivation of Hatred
Clean Romances
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This group is dedicated to building a up a list of clean romance books. Not "Christian" or "Inspirational" (there are other groups for those), but goo ...more
Seki’s 2025 Year in Books
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