Reconnect, Revive with Soul — Become Empowered with Help from Great Minds: William Blake, Philip Roth, Buddha, Socrates, Eric Erickson

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Black is not a color but the way you think. H. Rap Brown

Capitalism draws its energy by drilling ever deeper into our bodies, our minds and our most intimate social relations -- our very humanity. Sven Beckhert

The world's evils: Imperialism, colonialism, racism, sexism, inequality, exploitation, extraction, climate change, social media, dating apps, insomnia, a general feeling of unremitting pressure -- are not only evil in their own right but franchises of a singularly evil phenomenon.

While we may not want to feel sad, sadness is a very useful emotion. If it weren't useful, it wouldn't have been preserved over the course of our evolution. Sadness provides a timeout, a time to consider. When we appear sad, it calls out to others to console us about the loss which has triggered that emotion.

Expressions were the universal products of evolution. There were fundamental lessons to be learned from the face, if you knew where to look. Paul Ekman

Alma Allen: "This is how my life has gone. There are moments of luck and moments of difficulty. And sometimes they happen at the same time."

The ecology of fear. "In a society conditioned to cruelty, cruelty did not need to be disguised."

Where mercy, love & pity dwell — there God is swelling too. William Blake

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony. James Allen

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. Jonathan Swift

What you are you have been. What you'll be is what you do now. Buddha

Nothing bad can happen to a writer; everything is material. Philip Roth

"And you, you ridiculous people, you expect me to help you." Denis Johnson

The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind. Caroline Myss

DOUBT IS THE BROTHER OF SHAME.

The fact that human conscience remains partially infantile throughout life is the core of human tragedy. You've got to learn to accept the law of life and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly.

You have to protect the male ego very carefully. Russian woman. Erik Erikson

"Creativity is very life-giving. Van Gogh would have shot himself a lot earlier has he not been an artist."

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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. Socrates

Statistically speaking, any group of people will converge toward mediocrity.

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind. Thomas Carlyle

Hannah Arendt: "Metaphysical musings upon modernity." "An idiosyncratic thinker who believed that politics was inherently contingent and unpredictable." A commitment to independent thought. How thought and judgement connected to political action. "The work of one who has thought as well as suffered." "Anti-communist panic risked crystallizing into a 'totalitarian form of domination.'" She maintained that dissent was as essential to democracy as consent was. "It is quite instructive to see what can be achieved by manipulating public opinion and how many people, often on a high intellectual level, can be manipulated." "Love of the world" "Understanding & reconciling oneself with the world as it is."

The answer is the misfortune of the question. Maurice Blanchot

• The "kingdom of Heaven within" representing inner spiritual transformation, the integration of the conscious & unconscious and the path to achieve psychic totality. wikipedia

Children maintain an extraordinary awareness of the world from which they have emerged until a "veil of forgetfulness is drawn" and they adapt to the external world.

Melanie Klein: Infants absorb their interpretations of reality into their unconscious minds as "objects". These objects do not represent the actual physical object the infant sees. The child relates the object a person—most often the mother—or an aspect connected to that person. wikipedia

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices & chooses instead to express his opinions courageously & honestly. Albert Einstein.

That's how you make things funny, Martin Parr said: by deadpan — looking serious. If you're laughing in a photo, it's never going to be a funny photo.

When the mob governs, man is ruled by ignorance; when the church governs, he is ruled by superstition; and when the state governs, he is ruled by fear. Before men can live together in harmony and understanding, ignorance must be transmuted into wisdom, superstition into an illumined faith and fear into love. Manly P Hall

Samantha Jo: Hysteria comes from the Greek word for uterus.

The prefrontal cortex (responsible for planning, decision making & impulse control) doesn't fully mature until around age 25.

The principal thing in this world is to keep your soul aloft. Gustave Flaubert

Do all things with love. Og Mandino

The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic & beauty in them, while the magic & beauty are really in ourselves. Kahlil Gibran

Only squares and circles, lines and ellipses can elegantly explain and simplify the complex meaning of life. Arthur L. Clarke

If you don't dig the blues, you got a hole in your soul. Philip Upchurch

The mind is a monkey. Robert Stone

Evil is not eternal and truth will surely win. "My Undesirable Friends: Part 1--Last Air in Moscow"

Each man's life touches so many other lives & when he isn't around, he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he? You have no idea. "It's A Wonderful Life"

Obstacles are our wings. Nicolai Gogol