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If you refuse to let your own suffering lie upon you even for an hour and if you constantly try to prevent and forestall all possible distress way ahead of time; if you experience suffering and displeasure as evil, hateful, worthy of annihilation, and as a defect of existence, then it is clear that [you harbour in your heart] … the religion of comfortableness. How little you know of human happiness, you comfortable … people, for happiness and unhappiness are sisters and even twins that either grow up together or, as in your case, remain small together.
The Consolations of Philosophy
Alain De Botton
His greatest lesson from those years: “Take a simpleton and give him power and confront him with intelligence—and you have a tyrant.”
Wendell Berry’s Advice for a Cataclysmic Age
newyorker.com
When we become preoccupied with our own thoughts, feelings, needs and body problems, we have little attention left over to notice what is being done to support us.
A Natural Approach to Mental Wellness
Gregg Krech
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