Two things can be true at once.
Two diametrically opposed perspectives of the world. And both were both true.
Mister Rogers And The Dark Abyss Of The Adult Soul
— like seeing a good friend, long neglected, after so many years. He asks him questions, and then more questions, and waits through silences when Lloyd can’t answer them. — instead of sitting with those feelings, again, we work. Because work means money, and money brings a modicum of stability, and relief, however temporary, from that same fear. Work doesn’t actually give us peace or solve our problems. But for a lot of us, it’s what we’re good at and what we know, which is far more comforting than staring at the abyss of what we don’t. He brings us back to the openheartedness of childhood, when we lacked the skill to deflect, or compartmentalize, or resort to work. nonetheless a practice: a decision, made every day, to care deeply about others, but also to refuse to insulate himself from the emotions that care requires.
At some point, sadness will creep up your hands while you write and you won't know why. There are feelings writing can unearth long before the words to describe them. It's okay to stop. All blood pulses back to the heart. You don't need to open a vein t
At some point, sadness will creep up your hands while you write and you won't know why. There are feelings writing can unearth long before the words to describe them. It's okay to stop. All blood pulses back to the heart. You don't need to open a vein to find your pulse.
“Stories that elicit a big reaction provide us with a big opportunity to acknowledge our most challenging emotions and to wrestle with the assumptions, ideas, and beliefs that may no longer serve us. And that's the *whole* point of writing, of communica
Stories that elicit a big reaction provide us with a big opportunity to acknowledge our most challenging emotions and to wrestle with the assumptions, ideas, and beliefs that may no longer serve us. And that's the *whole* point of writing, of communicating, and of being human.
“On the other side of terror my own intelligence and love waits, and it is always, always better to respond to conflict from those parts of me. Terror is a mad dog who needs love, not the wheel.”
“On the other side of terror my own intelligence and love waits, and it is always, always better to respond to conflict from those parts of me. Terror is a mad dog who needs love, not the wheel.”
“the point of assigning some data set the status of an ‘emotion’ is to try to intervene and dictate how people process their own feelings, so that the emotion can be alienated from the person experiencing it, processed by an outside party, and sent
“the point of assigning some data set the status of an "emotion" is to try to intervene and dictate how people process their own feelings, so that the emotion can be alienated from the person experiencing it, processed by an outside party, and sent back to the person as a command”
Mood as Extrapolation Engine
I believe that moods (or less colloquially, states of mind) can be used not just defensively, making the best of whatever mood you’re in (as I described