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We can all be the love we seek is giving you are the one you’ve been waiting for dr. Richard Schwartz of IFS , Might consider re reading that too

Love isn’t about showing up in a particular way but about embodying the feeling itself

If I’m constantly focused on how I measure up to others or society’s standards, suppressing my authentic needs in the process, how can anyone around me have the opportunity to connect with the real me?

To change how we relate to others and experience our relationships, we first have to change how we relate to and experience ourselves which is related to how others related to us and experienced us early on - eg my mom had me cause she was bored

Chapter 8. Why am I reading this again?

A pretentious text written by a man who cannot control his emotions, a la moie on my yt channel today

Describing van goghs painting me thinking about Emily’s sketching and right at the moment my tear duct is about to give out, he mentions until the sorrow comes. Magic. Books are magic and writers, magicians. Mentalists.

Chapter 16

Who is John Galt, I mean, rich prunell

There are two races of men in this world - the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man

I get no criticising but hard to get behind no trauma exists because methinks trauma gives us space to evolve to higher planes

Why do some of hesses writing edge around queer love? Saw that in demian too

Perhaps he kept smoking so he had something to blame his mediocre life on,… I had great potential but these damn ciggies

Chapter19
Now I’m starting to get a little confused about why the first half is so well written and the eve parts are so… meh?

Chapter 11

I AM SCREAMING EVE FROM RULES OF CIVILITY IS BACK STOOOOOOPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!

Still blows my mind that people have written about the exact same experiences that I’m currently having re: work, attitude relative to others, dull and strong emotions, etc

Chapter 4

Wonderful depiction of the idea that a character has to want something deeply - experience, in Timothy’s case, and he also gets it!

Well tied back

Chapter 3

Love how quickly communism turned into a pyramid scheme for pushkin

“Fasting from eating doesn’t change our hunger, but when we exchange what we hunger for, it can change the way we eat. The only way I’ve learnt to change what I hunger for is to change my mind about what i’m most hungry for”

Maybe it’s not necessarily the sugar that is the problem for me but the lack of stimulating work that I care about?

1. All behaviour makes sense with enough information

2. Because everyone is so different, FIRE or YOLO aren’t blanket good advice ideas

3. The only good advice is regret minimization - but you really have to picture yourself at the end of life to do this

US STUCK IN THE AIRPORT FOR 10 hours, time warp, final frontier 540


“there is no time. There is no physical body. At least not beyond being a mental concept. Everything is energy, including our thoughts. Maybe everything exist at once. Time is rolled into a ball with no beginning and no ending. Now is merely a point of focus of individualised consciousness called me and called you.”

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. “

Compassion is all there is

“Does a word, any word, considered common or otherwise, have an innate power to harm? Can a word act in an evil or malicious way? No! A word can’t produce physical or psychological pain; only an individuals perception of it can. The listener chooses to be offended. The problem is between the hearer’s ears.”

Agree hundy p

The world is a magical island. The beauty and horror of it is that whatever you wish for comes true

“Storing up good times is like depositing resolve in a bank; you can draw down on it when you have to cover hardship”

Me on this 17 hour flight delay happy as a fiddle because what a day and week it’s been with the final frontier 540

Too many bangers

“ Religion is good for good people and bad for bad people “

“Brotherhood is the key to salvation”

Preach brother

I’ve only started but I’m going to rate it 5 stars

“I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty “

There’s gonna be so many quotes in this book I can just feel it

Something made me go back and pick it up after I left it the first time

“I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings… I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels. -Pearl s Buck

Be the man who makes his girl laugh every day