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One thing I've learned from profiling people is that we're all driven by some unspoken need. Why do we keep doing what we do every single day? Usually, there's something we're trying to prove, resolve, escape, or heal within ourselves.

Polina Pompliano
6d ago

The true paradox of consciousness is that the more narrowly we examine it, the more it seems to elude us, as if consciousness were not an object to be grasped but a field in which the grasping occurs.

1mo ago

The true paradox of consciousness is that the more we think about it directly, the more it eludes us; yet in the very act of eluding our grasp, it reveals itself most fully.

1mo ago

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by drowning in our thoughts. We confuse ourselves as we think in circles, going nowhere—all the while forgetting that we are only ever just one step away from making a choice that could change the direction of our lives.

1mo ago
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Lay It Down

Take this moment to decide if we meant it, if we tried, or felt around for far too much from things that accidentally touched.

1mo ago

The mind is like a vast library in which the books are in constant flux—some volumes fade into obscurity while others suddenly illuminate corners previously left in shadow, and the librarian himself is often the last to know what treasures or horrors his collection contains.

2mo ago

Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

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