“Es stimmt nicht, dass, wie einige postmoderne, relativistische Literaturtheoretiker und Anthropologen meinen, alle Weltinterpretationen die gleiche Gültigkeit haben und in keiner Weise vergleichbar sind, es also im Sinne des “anything goes” keine guten Bewertungsmaßstäbe gibt. Nur weil man verneint, dass die ethische Wahrheit einer ganz und gar uninterpretierten Realität korrespondiert, muss jedoch die Idee der Wahrheitssuche kein altmodischer Irrtum sein. Bestimmte Weltanschauungen können immer noch so kritisiert werden, wie Aristoteles sie kritisiert hat: als dumm, schädlich und falsch. Die bei einer solchen Kritik verwendeten Maßstäbe müssen aus dem menschlichen Leben selbst kommen. Es gibt keinen Grund zu der Annahme, dass der Kritiker nicht fähig sein wird, die Einrichtung der Sklaverei abzulehnen.”
—Marta Nussbaum, Nicht-relative Tugenden
January 2011
“We live our lives in anticipation of the next hit of experience as if the one that’s coming will finally do it for us. What’s so strange is that nothing up ‘til now has brought that sense of real completion or fulfillment. So why are we so seduced into thinking that the next one will?”
—Joseph Goldstein (via divakoza)
Cultivating a close, warm-hearted feeling for others automatically puts our mind at ease.
“There’s a debate in our culture about what really makes us happy, which is summarized by, on the one hand, the book “On the Road” and, on the other, the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life.” The former celebrates the life of freedom and adventure. The latter celebrates roots and connections. Research over the past thirty years makes it clear that what the inner mind really wants is connection. “It’s a Wonderful Life” was right.”
—What the science of human nature can teach us, The New Yorker (via somethingchanged)
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“The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.”
—(via anacats)
“Don’t waste your time with fear.. Fear won’t keep you safe from being hurt.”
—Tiffanie DeBartolo (via anacats)
“Thinking for yourself means finding yourself, finding your own reality. Here’s the other problem with Facebook and Twitter and even The New York Times. When you expose yourself to those things, especially in the constant way that people do now—older people as well as younger people—you are continuously bombarding yourself with a stream of other people’s thoughts. You are marinating yourself in the conventional wisdom. In other people’s reality: for others, not for yourself. You are creating a cacophony in which it is impossible to hear your own voice, whether it’s yourself you’re thinking about or anything else. That’s what Emerson meant when he said that “he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.” Notice that he uses the word lead. Leadership means finding a new direction, not simply putting yourself at the front of the herd that’s heading toward the cliff.”
—Solitude and Leadership, a speech delivered to West Point Military Academy by William Deresiewicz, The American Scholar (via somethingchanged)
“Sagt was ihr seid. Nicht, was ihr gern wärt, und auch nicht, was ihr sein müsstet. Sagt einfach, was ihr seid. Das ist allemal genug.”
—John Cassavetes (via riot36)
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In Defense of Psychoanalysis (Intelligent Life) →
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…The irony is that in becoming more “scientific”, CBT becomes less therapeutic. Now, Freud himself liked to be thought of as a scientist (he began his career in neurology, working on the spinal ganglia), but it’s the non-scientific features that make psychoanalysis the more, not the less, powerful.
I’m referring to the therapeutic relationship itself. Although like psychoanalysis largely a talking cure, CBT prefers to set aside the emotions in play between doctor and patient. Psychoanalysis does the reverse. To the annoyance no doubt of many a psychoanalytic patient, the very interaction between the two becomes the subject-matter of the therapy.
The respected therapist and writer Irvin Yalom, among others, argues that depression and associated forms of sadness stem from an inability to make good contact with others. Relationships are fundamental to happiness. And so a science that has the courage to include the doctor’s relationship with the patient within the treatment itself, and to work with it, is a science already modelling the solution it prescribes. What psychoanalysis loses in scientific stature, it gains in humanity.
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Everybody needs that Evil Plan that is going to pry their lives out of the jaws of crap jobs, cubicle hell, mediocrity and general despair.
Everybody needs that Evil Plan that is going to allow them to do something amazing, to be something amazing.
Everybody needs an Evil Plan that allows them to become whatever it is they were born to be.
Regardless of who you are or what you may think, that is a conversation that needs to happen, both on the personal and the macro scale.
What matters is that people get off their ass and do something abut it. Or die trying.
” —Hugh MacLeod
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.”
—Carl Jung, Dreams
