January 2010
31 posts
“A person to be in the possession of something as perfect as mortal man has a...”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
“But the highest level is ideal pleasure, the pleasures of the mind. Here the...”
– (via amymckinney)
“If you take wine away, love will die, and
every other source of human joy will...”
– Bacchae lines 773-4, by Euripides
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to...”
– Jack Kerouac | Submitted by: royalsadness (via quote-book)
always reblog!
(via lovebot)
Where's the Butt Glue? →
“If you want to be a writer, you’ve got to have butt glue (you need to have a few other things as well, some talent being right at the top of the list). Can I buy butt glue by the gallon down at OfficeMax? How thick should I spread it on my chair? What kind of solvent should I use to get it off? In reality, butt glue is that inner resolve to sit in your favorite writing chair and not...
“Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then...”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
Life Story
Spiritual America
This long-forgotten photograph, taken by photographer Alfred Stieglitz in 1923, is titled “Spiritual America.” In the early 1920s, “[The literari] despised capitalism as the foul offspring of Puritanism. They rebelled against what Waldo Frank called the ‘cold lethal simplicities of American business culture.’ The United States, they argued, was a gadgety,...
Are Social Networks Messing with Your Head?... →
psychotherapy:
Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and their cousins have evolved from college fad to global ubiquity in seven short years. Whether they are good for our mental health is another matter.
“Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the...”
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (via psychotherapy)
poetry as tonic, #17
psychotherapy:
Lines for Winter
Tell yourself as it gets cold and gray falls from the air that you will go on walking, hearing the same tune no matter where you find yourself— inside the dome of dark or under the cracking white of the moon’s gaze in a valley of snow. Tonight as it gets cold tell yourself what you know which is nothing but the tune your bones play as you keep going....
“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.”
– Spinoza (via psychotherapy)
“We’re wired for attachment in a world of impermanence…How we negotiate that...”
– Robert Neimeyer, a psychologist at the University of Memphis who studies how people draw meaning from loss and grief (via psychotherapy)
Emerson & Nature
Courtesy of http://www.tumblr.com/tumblupon/xpl5h1jyo
I like how this painting makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside. The motion of the bunny tumbling head-over-heels keeps me staring at it, as well. I used to have a stuffed bunny that looked just like this; I would sleep with it every night when I was little. I believe that I’m so attracted to this piece of art because I associate it...
Pretty Loaded →
aprilini:
You know that wee graphic you get while waiting for a website page to load? Yeah, this is a collection of those. It’s mesmerizing.
Off Line, On Life (Psychology of Technology) →
psychotherapy:
…For the next three days, I slept great, was more attentive to my wife and kids, didn’t think about work for hours at a time, and just plain enjoyed myself immensely. I was, dare I say, living in the moment. I had just learned first hand that disconnecting from the virtual world enabled me to connect more deeply with the real world. Wow, I thought, I could get used to this.
That...
“When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong— or...”
– Albert Guinon (via livejamie)
The Americanization of Mental Illness →
psychotherapy:
wolfandfox:
kateoplis:
For all our self-recrimination, we may have yet to face one of the most remarkable effects of American-led globalization. We have for many years been busily engaged in a grand project of Americanizing the world’s understanding of mental health and illness. We may indeed be far along in homogenizing the way the world goes mad.
“Every byte is a Bite”
– RLJ
