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Constantly search for overlapping areas of agreement and dwell there. Disagreements will appear to be edge cases.
Excellent Advice for Living
Kevin Kelly
Marx usually enjoyed the experience of making love to an ex, and this evening was no exception. It was interesting to note the way your body had changed and how their body had changed in the time since you’d last been intimate. There was a pleasant Weltschmerz that came over him. It was the nostalgia one experienced when visiting an old school and finding that the desks were so much smaller than in one’s memory.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
I went through twenty-one years of American schools and can’t recall anyone in all that time ever asking me how I felt. Feelings were simply not considered important. What was valued was “the right way to think”—as defined by those who held positions of rank and authority. We are trained to be “other-directed” rather than to be in contact with ourselves. We learn to be “up in our head,” wondering, “What is it that others think is right for me to say and do?”
Nonviolent Communication
Marshall B. Rosenberg
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