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“Words, one may argue, are such a drag, useless - don't think it too much, just do it. And no - I agree - over-thinking is a curse, but it is without words when I over-think, when I over-burn neurons. With words, things find their place. I've said this to myself a million times.”
― Pressure
― Pressure
“people diminish me;
the longer I sit and listen to them
the more empty I feel but I don't get
the idea that they feel empty, I feel
that they enjoy the sound from their
mouths.”
― Bone Palace Ballet: New Poems
the longer I sit and listen to them
the more empty I feel but I don't get
the idea that they feel empty, I feel
that they enjoy the sound from their
mouths.”
― Bone Palace Ballet: New Poems
“Situations themselves don’t create our emotional experience; it is only our thoughts about them that make us suffer.”
― A Guide to the Present Moment
― A Guide to the Present Moment
“We almost always seem to be waiting to be happy. We are either waiting for the next fun moment to distract ourselves from our discontent, or we are waiting to achieve the “perfect” circumstances. We might be waiting for work to be over, waiting for the weekend, waiting for our next vacation, waiting to find our soul mate, waiting for our children to get through their”
― A Guide to the Present Moment
― A Guide to the Present Moment
“When we think about the remarkably early age at which the young men went up to the University in, let us say, Tudor times, and thereafter were held fit to assume responsibility for the conduct of their own affairs, are we altogether comfortable about that artificial prolongation of intellectual childhood and adolescence into the years of physical maturity which is so marked in our own day? To postpone the acceptance of responsibility to a late date brings with it a number of psychological complications which, while they may interest the psychiatrist, are scarcely beneficial either to the individual or to society.”
― The Lost Tools of Learning
― The Lost Tools of Learning
Eli’s 2025 Year in Books
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107 friends
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100 books
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55 books
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83 books
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134 books
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