Euphoria

by Lily King

We’re always, in everything we do in this world, she said, limited by subjectivity. But our perspective can have an enormous wingspan, if we give it the freedom to unfurl.

Is it always that way with men, that first burst of love or sex the thing that binds you? Do you always have to harken back to those first weeks when just the way he walked across a room made you want to take off all your clothes?

I think about this often when observing other relationships but pls don’t let this be true 😭

Why are we, with all our “progress,” so limited in understanding & sympathy & the ability to give each other real freedom? Why with our emphasis on the individual are we still so blinded by the urge to conform?

Amen

The world—and really I mean the West—has no interest in change or self-improvement

Sorry to be a hater of my world

Western civilization is not the end result of an evolution of culture, nor is the study of primitive societies the study of our origins.

Seriously like can everyone stop the Hunter gatherer supremacy

When only one person is the expert on a particular people, do we learn more about the people or the anthropologist when we read the analysis?

Homosexuality and trance were considered abnormalities now, while in the Middle Ages people had been made saints for their trances, which were considered the highest state of being, and in Ancient Greece, as Plato makes clear, homosexuality was ‘a major means to the good life.’ She claimed that conformity created maladjustment and tradition could turn psychopathic.

I sent this to all my freinds

‘Do you think it’s natural, the desire to possess another person?’

Words to ponder

Wine is sort of thrilling and sensual, and bread is familiar and essential.’

In my nonexpert opinion, a healthy, strong relatiobship begins as wine and matures to bread. Coming in from any other angle leads to ?messy, ujnfulfiling relationships