How many of your friendships and relationships are built on illusion? Just remember, it takes both parties to wholeheartedly believe in the illusion for it to exist. And it takes one party to peek through the veil, and the whole foundation crumbles.
@foundmyfitness True. Obsessing over routines leads most people to an equal and opposite counter-reaction of the opposite habit, keeping them stuck in homeostasis.
βMidway upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark,
For the straightforward pathway had been lost.β
- Dante Alighieri (Inferno, Canto I)
Self-preservation is the egoβs highest virtue. Ask Cronus, who swallowed his children, or Oedipus, who killed his father. The ego will sacrifice almost anything to preserve itself.
βPeople will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.β
- Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy (Collected Works, Vol. 12)