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My Absolutely Chaotic Adventures at Sea During the Summer of 1984

Printer wrestles with the person his chaotic childhood has trained him to be—and what pieces of himself he can salvage from the wreckage.

— Carolyn Wells
6d ago

The true paradox of consciousness is that we become most fully conscious precisely when we cease to be aware of ourselves—when the self dissolves into action, perception, or creation.

6d ago

The true paradox of consciousness is that we become most fully conscious precisely when we cease to think about consciousness at all, and surrender ourselves to the world.

1w ago
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How to See More Clearly and Love More Purely: Iris Murdoch on the Angst of Not Knowing Ourselves and Each Other

It is, of course, impossible to ever fully know what it is like to be someone else — this is the cost of consciousness, singular and secretive as it is; impossible, too, to fully convey to another what it is like to be you. The dream of perfectly clear vision is indeed just a dream. But we can always see a little more clearly in order to love a little more purely.

2w ago
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Do Not Spare Yourself

there is no damnation greater than spending our allotted days in the catatonia of comfort and certainty, our inner lives automated by habit and halogen lit by convenience.

3w 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.

4w ago
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Masking My Autism Made Me Sick

Looking back, adults in particular have a terrible habit of labeling as "good" what is merely convenient for them, of painting as "good" what is really just their standard for normal.

4w 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

We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of self; the only escape is through the bars of understanding something larger than ourselves.

1mo ago
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Annie Dillard on Unselfconsciousness

I wonder if we do not waste most of our energy just by spending every waking minute saying hello to ourselves.

1mo ago

We are made of starstuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

1mo ago

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