Once when I was in therapy in high school, a counselor told me she was very concerned about when I got to middle age, because I would have accomplished the things I was placing all of my peace-of-mind on. And then there would be nothing.
Acting without feeling inspired is us saying what we naturally know, feel and think, and this is vulnerability. When we believe that we must be inspired by an idea to create something of it, it is a mechanism to avoid placing ourselves bare into something that other people can judge.
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Let’s pretend for a moment that we pulled apart all of your organs and laid them on a table.
Your life will unfold in direct proportion to how much you believe you deserve. Not how much you think you should have. How much you believe you deserve.
What if the point is not to arrive at a conclusion, but just to consider the thought?
I’m always lightly romanticized by the phases of my life, the shifts that occurred as my psyche did — because my psyche did.…
“Discovering this, [that you suffer only from yourself], the mind becomes whole: the split between I and me, man and the…
The point is, you can’t fake a deep life. You get what you give. If you cultivate the surface, you’ll end up with only the surface of things. You can’t expect to give a little and receive a lot in return.
The essence of you may be undefinable, but that does not mean it’s not unique. Unspoken words do not stop referring to a concept or a physical item. You cannot lose control by mentally renouncing your train of thought.