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At this point the diary gradually shifts from being a place where I vent my feelings and make laconic jokes about my flaws to a place where I think about things that interest me or give me awe. To use [Visa’s phrase](https://substack.com/redirect/c0887e7e-4209-41bd-aad5-3cb5b136a96e?j=eyJ1IjoiNmdtcW1qIn0.fFUvpUEzpOrwdww3ElwErhsO964KhwdDmKUp013wugI), I began to focus on what I wanted to see more of. I moved toward the good, rather than away from the bad.
The Paradox Is That When I Accept Myself Just as I Am, I Change
Henrik Karlsson
To be thinking is to be alive. Thinking feels like just being. We don’t know that silence and space can even exist between thoughts, that we can exist in the absence of thinking. Furthermore, we don’t know that thoughts can appear and we can choose to decline their invitation, decide not to engage in their content. We don’t know another way of living, other than thinking.
Can't Stop Thinking
Nancy Colier and Stephan Bodian
Berry distrusts political movements, which, he writes, “soon decline from any possibility of reasonable discourse to slogans, shouts, and a merely hateful contention in the capitols and streets.”
Wendell Berry’s Advice for a Cataclysmic Age
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