June 2012
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Of all the virtues we can learn no trait is more useful, more essential for...
– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (via nirvikalpa)
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Happy Memorial Day!
Off to my roommate’s island (yeah, his own island) for the weekend! Hell yeah!
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b-6-12:
Everybody wants to go to bed with everybody else, they’re lined up for blocks, so I’ll go to bed with you. They won’t miss us.
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Is desire not that which remains always unthought at the heart of thought?
– Michel Foucault, The Order of Things (via augustuscarmichael)
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It is senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what...
– Jean-Paul Sartre (via qaisarjanjua)
Perfect.
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I know. And you’re another trap. Do you think they haven’t foreknown every word...
– Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit (via fromtheinsight)
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Hey Ali! Just finished writing your letter. My fingertips have ink all over.
Also, I found a lot of old papers so I’m purging them from my notebook. Some highlights:
“It doesn’t have to be perfect, you just have to feel something.”
“Do away with hopelessness.”
“Marilyn Monroe and a subway grate - ‘That’s love’.
“Green...
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Weekend Update
My week built a lot of strong energy in my favor. The dualistic experience of having good and bad days really made me appreciate the past 7 days. Friday was a short work day with a meeting at 4 in Boston that led to a morale-boosting bar crawl. We made it three bars and way too many free drinks later before I parted ways with the Budweiser crew. I head off into town with my best friend from NY to...
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How to Grow Up →
Becoming an authentic adult means going against the whole drift of the culture. It specifically means, among other things, soothing your own bad feelings without the help of another, pursuing your own goals, and standing on your own two feet. Most people associate such skills with singlehood. But Schnarch finds that marriage can’t succeed unless we claim our sense of self in the presence...