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Our troubled relationship with time arises largely from this same effort to avoid the painful constraints of reality.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
The point here is that these symptoms and patterns are the activities of young, stressed-out parts that are often frozen in time during earlier traumas and believe that you are still quite young and powerless. They often believe that they must blend the way they do or something dreadful will happen (often, that you will die).
No Bad Parts
Richard C. Schwartz and Alanis Morissette
When humans arrived, they carried seeds out of the Caucasus along the Silk Route, and this is where the first fork in the genetic river occurred. The seeds that moved east into the colder regions of the Himalayas developed into the so-called indica strains, also known as kush strains; the high they produce tends to be more physical than cerebral.
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