Adversaria (38)
‘You don’t realize you aren’t walking on eggshells anymore until you can’t hear them crunching under your feet’ —Jen Hatmaker (Awake, 51%)
‘Generally speaking, it is better to begin the task of self-improvement in the mind, leaving outward habits to be altered in due course as the inevitable outcome of new modes of thought. Concentrate on essentials, and remember that food and dress, for example, are not essentials, and of little importance in the reckoning of spiritual worth’ —Christmas Humphreys (Concentration and Meditation, p. 119)
‘Moral ideas to not create morality; they create hypocrisy and a hostility toward certain parts of the self, a self-division that makes actual moral goods impossible to attain. The hostility to parts of the self is then projected outward, into hostility toward others who seem to exemplify or encourage the hated parts’ —Brook Ziporyn (Experiments in Mystical Atheism, p. 107)
‘A truth explained is a truth no longer true.’ —Christmas Humphreys (Concentration and Meditation, p. 195)
‘When a girl becomes unhappy there come all at once those hungry monsters who wish to sate their psychological hunger and thirst or to write novels’ —Kierkegaard (Repetition, trans. W. Lowrie, p. 98)