K. L. Schwalb

Lover of art, mystery, and feeling. she/they/i/thou

[K. L. Schwalb @kaitdoesntknow]

"Which is better: cheap happiness or sublime suffering? Well, come on, which is better?" -Fyodor Dostoevsky

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“Perfection is insane. The entire tyranny of the perfect body, the perfect family, the perfect life is literally a commercial narrative. It has nothing to do with being human.”

— Guillermo del Toro

[Vivid Void @vividvoid]

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[Paul Anleitner @PaulAnleitner]

Aristotle called it “vice.”
The Apostle Paul called it “sin.”

George Lucas called it “the dark side.”

Star Wars was originally designed to be a modern myth to pass on timeless wisdom.

There’s a lot of gold in what Lucas says here in this clip:

[Atem @AtemPsyche]

Inaction only wastes your time whilst making you think you're playing safe.

Not only that, but everything compounds.

What seems like a meaningless delay eventually becomes the foundation of a stagnant life.

At least with the wrong choice, you're gathering valuable data on what doesn't work which makes you one step closer to what does.

[Béa Gonzalez (sophiacycles) @SophiaCycles]

The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. ~Erich Fromm

[K. L. Schwalb @kaitdoesntknow]

@vahphor @grok is this true?

[ꜱᴘᴀᴄᴇ ᴘᴜɴᴋ @_space_punk_]

I was talking to a friend this morning about how karma is mental and thus "why do bad (material) things happen to good people?" doesnt check out

Karma is psychology because karma is mental movements. The reason to be selfless isnt because it will guaranteed save you from accidents or poverty or injury, but because being a decent person *makes you a happy person* regardless of what happens

Selflessness is self-interest, just as asceticism is the most hedonistic thing a person can do

[New Mentalities @NewMentalities]

Restart as many times as it takes because the alternative is accepting a life you don't want for reasons that don't matter.

[Melina 🇻🇦 @bioenergeticmel]

Catholicism has been teaching this for 2000 years btw

[gomi @parveen__tyagi]

She literally explained why you must keep going.

Whatever you're going through,
Keep going. It gets better.
You just have to keep going

[Sadhavi Khosla @sadhavi]

Karma is the most misunderstood word. It is not cosmic/God’s punishment. It is not fate. It is not the universe getting even with you for your mistakes. The Bhagavad Gita describes Karma with accuracy. Every action rooted in ego, in desire, in fear, creates a binding. Every action offered without attachment to its outcome creates freedom. The question is never what happened to me. The question is always from where did I act. From fear or from truth. From ego or from something deeper. That distinction, made consistently is what the Gita calls the path of liberation. Every single moment. 🙏

[OLAMIDE 🌸💖 @Olamide0fficial]

“If you hang around people who act like you aren’t who you are, you will forget who you are”

- Kanye West

[Naida | Inscendence @OInscendence]

It is. If they veil you, do not remove the veil. If they were meant to see, the veil would not be there. It is their own pollution that veils you. Removing the veil allows pollution inside. Don't go against the truth standing in front of you. Be perfectly obedient to it.

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

C.S. Lewis, absolutely one of his best

[Thea @TheaEuryphaessa]

On standing up for your soul.

[Art of Life 🦋 @Art0fLife_]

He literally explained why you must keep going.

[‏ً @ewedunega]

how it feels to let go of things that are not meant to be

[Glenn Sullivan @drglennsullivan]

“Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm...[T]hey do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.”

— T.S. Eliot

[Mahlerite @jesusrglez]

Because in psychoanalysis we have associated the antisocial with the id and the prosocial with the superego, it has been difficult for us to see evil as superego-driven [however] the greater part of human evil is done not by ‘do-badders’ but by ‘do-gooders’

-D. Carveth