I haven't read the book or anything, and from the summaries I've read, it's not abundantly clear that the book contains the ideas that I ascribe to it, nevertheless ( Read more... )

The art of losing isn’t hard to master ( Read more... )

I think it's true that I work best when I have someone else helping to direct my attention, but not trying to direct my insight. I'm good at solving problems. The best way to direct my attention is by asking me questions I don't know the answer to ( Read more... )

I've learned too many life lessons from fiction books. I'm not actually a real person ( Read more... )

One of the sources of real concern in my life is that I'm basically incapable of forgiving people. It takes a lot to make me angry. I'm strongly empathetic. I'm so incredibly stupidly naively willing to be understanding. I can always see the other person's point of view. The number of times in my life where I've gotten really and truly angry I can ( Read more... )

It's really strange journal. I care very much about living a consistent life. I probably care too much about it by most metrics ( Read more... )

Literally every research experience I've been a part of has been incredibly poorly planned.

He was done with her haunting his dreams, done with all the demands that he make his love for her into some kind of weapon, a thing with which to threaten and cajole.

Erikson. The crippled God 542/914

Greek Exercise #39:
Plato's Symposium: "The Redemption of Eros"

II wonder often if I miss you. I eat three meals ( Read more... )

There is, as a legion of morose poets well know, nothing inconsequential about love. Nor all of those peculiarities of related appetites often confused for love, for example lust, possession, amorous worship, appalling notions of abject surrender where one's own will is bled out in sacrifice, obsessions of the fetishistic sort that might include ( Read more... )