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Andrew Boyd
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I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor:
"This is the kind of book that makes me feel like I should retrospectively downgrade most of my reviews by a star or two.
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I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor:
"I Want a Better Catastrophe is the kind of book that finds you in the dark, sits down beside you, and whispers, Yeah, it’s bad. But also… what if we actually lean into that? Then, just as you’re settling into the gallows humor, it grips your shoulder"
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"Well, if I was ever going to describe my thoughts on a book in terms of a love-hate relationship, this would be that book.
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I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor:
"This is a fantastic and very necessary book! No doubt, for those who've struggled with 'what can I do?', 'how do I proceed in the face of despair?', and 'what's the point?', this book will be a gift. For those who've yet to face the truth, that a wor"
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“We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: it's got to be the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have.”
I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.”
― Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe
I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.”
― Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe
“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.”
― Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe
― Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe
“Many of us have set out on the path of enlightenment. We long for a release of self-hood in some kind of mystical union with all things. But that moment of epiphany—when we finally see the whole pattern and sense our place in the cosmic web—can be a crushing experience from which we never fully recover. Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. You can not turn away. Your destiny is bound to the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors. To seek enlightenment is to seek annihilation, rebirth, and the taking up of burdens. You must come prepared to touch and be touched by each and every thing in heaven and hell.
I am One with the Universe and it hurts.”
― Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe
I am One with the Universe and it hurts.”
― Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe
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“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.”
― Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe
― Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe
“But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and of what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
― Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning
― Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning
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