“With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.” LittlesDealsBeing TrueBegging Book:Letters to a Friend Source: Letters to a Friend
“No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Broadly, we can afford to sink those sorts of knowledge which continue to be true regardless of changes in the environment, but we must maintain in an accessible place all those controls of behavior which must be modified for every instance. The economics of the system, in fact, pushes organisms toward sinking into the unconscious those generalities of relationship which remain permanently true and toward keeping within the conscious the pragmatic of particular instances.” MatterFactsLevelsDealsEnvironmentParticularBehaviorConsciousEconomicsBeing TrueInstanceUnconsciousOrganismsSinkingPragmaticGeneralities Author:Gregory Bateson
“If you know how much reality is getting in, then you know a great deal about what a person sees to be true.” IfsKnowsPersonsRealityDealsKnow HowBeing True Book:You Can Read Anyone: Never be Fooled, Lied To, Or Taken Advantage of Again Source: You Can Read Anyone: Never be Fooled, Lied To, Or Taken Advantage of Again
“Everyone suffers; life is pain; and death is the final punctuation at the end of that sentence, so deal with it. I really think you can manage pain and suffering by living in fullness and being true to yourself and all those seemingly vapid platitudes.” ThinkingEndsPainLife IsSufferingDealsFinalsSentencesBeing TrueManageFullnessBe True To YourselfTrue To YourselfPunctuationPain And SufferingPlatitudesVapidLife Is Pain Author:Sufjan Stevens