"The seed gradually gives way to the flower not merely by expanding but by differentiating into an ever more complex organism."

Chaia Heller, Ecology of Everyday Life: Rethinking the Desire for Nature

"We hunger for eloquence.
We measure the isopleths.
I am visiting my life with reckless plenitude.
Fireflies turn on their electric wills:
an effulgence. Let me come back
whole, let me remember how to touch you
before it is too late."

Stacie Cassarino, Summer Solstice

I see a lot of information and also misinformation about neurodivergence. In particular, #adhd. As a practicing psychologist, I think the "disorder" model of ADD/ADHD, particularly in LMIC countries causes a lot of discrimination and unchecked power differentials.

#adhdawareness

Contemporary urban casteism tries rather hard to reframe its supremacy as "critique".

In 1995, Margaret Stoebe and Henk Schut presented a paper at the Meeting of the International Work Group on Death, Dying and Bereavement (Thinking about the after hours meet-up for this conference!). The paper was called “The Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement”
#mentalhealthcommunity

Spiritual, John Coltrane
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkY_...

Bihari parents naming street dogs they feed :
Ye hai Anarsa aur yeh wali ka naam hai Litti.

The greatest hoax perpetuated by the "mind coaching" pipeline is the exaggerated usefulness of resilience.

#mentalhealth

"When the atrophy of natural critical faculties with respect to pathological individuals spreads to the macrosocial level, a society tends to develop contempt for factual criticism and to humiliate anyone sounding an alarm."

—Andrew M. Łobaczewski, Political Ponerology

"How can disciplines such as psychology, sociology, economics and political science anticipate the world-changing effects of something as small as one consequential day of sightseeing or as ephemeral as passing clouds?"

#psychology
#science
aeon.co/essays/witho...

"Information dissolves reality, which is just as ghostly as those disembodied voices. Digitalisation dematerialises, disembodies and eventually strips away the substantiality of our world."

Byung-Chul Han, Interviewed
artreview.com/byung-chul-h...

“Beyond a given point [we are] not helped by more “knowing,” but only by living and doing in a partly self-forgetful way. [...] All reflection and no plunging drives us mad; all plunging and no reflection, and we are brutes.”

-Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

#quotesforlife

A litany for survival by Audre Lorde

“To say that the world is not worth anything, that this life is of no value and to give evil as the proof is absurd, for if these things are worthless what does evil take from us?”

Simone Weil in Gravity And Grace

#quotes