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Red Clocks
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Christmas, her favorite criminal. Stockings are hanged, trees chopped, geese shot, children threatened with coal.
“...suggests [Psychological disorders] are not the result of a lack of order in the brain, but rather stem from an excess of order. When the grooves of self-reflective thinking deepen and harden, the ego becomes overbearing.This is perhaps most clearly evident in depression, when the ego turns on itself and uncontrollable introspection gradually shades out reality. Carhart-Harris cites research indicating that this debilitating state of mind (sometimes called heavy self consciousness or depressive realism) may be the result of a hyper-active Default Mode Network which can trap us in repetitive and destructive loops of rumination that eventually close us off from the world outside.”
― How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
― How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
“Miguel Angel," he said, "It isn't hard to die. Everybody does it. Even flies do it. Everyone here is doing it. We're all terminal." He had a tear in his eye; Big Angel could see it brimming. "Your schedule is just different from mine.”
― The House of Broken Angels
― The House of Broken Angels
“It scared me that the only thing between this moment of calm and the biggest tragedy of my life was me choosing not to do it.”
― Daisy Jones & The Six
― Daisy Jones & The Six
“They'd both learned that a memory is a fact that has been dyed and trimmed and rinsed so many times that it comes out looking almost unrecognizable to anyone else who was in that room or anyone who was standing on the grass beneath that telephone pole.”
― Ask Again, Yes
― Ask Again, Yes
“The magic of the creative process is that there is no magic. Start where you are. Don't stop.”
― The Practice: Shipping Creative Work
― The Practice: Shipping Creative Work
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