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F*ck Feelings: One Shrink's Practical Advice for Managing All Life's Impossible Problems

by Michael I. Bennett

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Jan 02, 2022 09:03PM

“But if one doesn't really exist, one wonders why..." she hesitated.
"Why one makes such a fuss about things," Anthony suggested. "All that howling and hurrahing and gnashing of teeth. About the adventures of a self that isn't really a self—just the result of a lot of accidents. And of course," he went on, "once you start wondering, you see at once that there is no reason for making such a fuss. And then you don't make a fuss—that is, if you're sensible. Like me," he added, smiling.”
― Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza

tags: absurdism, absurdity, aldous, aldous-huxley, brave-new-world, existentialism, eyeless-in-gaza, huxley, nihilism

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“But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.”
― Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation

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“If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of solitude and leave you by the side of the road with your truth and nothing else.”
― Thomas Ligotti , The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

tags: examined-life, limits, nothing, ride, road, seek, seeking, solitude, truth

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“It’s a mass agitation of ambitious cocks!”
― David Anthony Durham, The Other Lands

tags: funny

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“Letting go of a craving is not rejecting it but allowing it to be itself: a contingent state of mind that once arisen will pass away. Instead of forcibly freeing ourselves from it, notice how its very nature is to free itself. To let it go is like releasing a snake that you have been clutching in your hand. By identifying with a craving ('I want this," don't want' that"), you tighten the clutch and intensify its resistance. Instead of being a state of mind that you have, it becomes a compulsion that has you. As with understanding anguish, the challenge in letting go of craving is to act before habitual reactions incapacitate us.”
― Stephen Batchelor, Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening

tags: anguish, buddhism, craving, life

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