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The Dance of Dissonance
Sometimes
#brainFog #circleOfLove #danceOfRelationship #dissonance #dock #emotionalBoundaries #emotionalReflection #empathy #GriefAndGrace #healingJourney #humanRelationships #hypervigilance #innerHealing #invisibleStrings #June2026 #labyrinth #marionette #Masks #MentalHealth #pastoralReflection #photorealisticIllustration #relationshipAnxiety #selfCompassion #SelfDoubt #SpiritualReflection #stage #surrealArt #surrealism #symbolicArt #unraveling #vulnerability
I find myself lost
at the end of
a confusing day
trying to decipher labyrinthian relations
and coming up short,
suddenly wondering
how a day I thought good
was not for another,
caught up in
opposing realities
where mine is suspect
and empathy is a struggle.
The brain fog
of past illness
has left its trailing
fingers over my head
like the cigarette smoke
of the man I see one morning standing with his back to me on the dock outside the store where I used to work
and I wonder why he is there.
I am suspicious, feeling responsible for what is no longer mine to care about, so I observe, yet remain at a distance and leave without really discovering if his presence is innocent.
Such is the dance of dissonance.
I am close enough to see your back but too far to see your face clearly,
afraid that if I look too closely I will not like what I see or that I will recognize some ugly part of me.
I want to hear
that which runs
counter to my experience
but I must be honest and say that my capacity to understand the complexities of human behavior is diminishing.
I long for circles that are completely safe,
where the people I pass on the walk home illicit in me feelings other than fear,
lust, guilt, or judgement,
all of which mirror
the overwhelming sense
of dislike
I feel from the
world, and from myself perhaps.
It is my inability to not receive everything personally, this overwhelming sadness, unprotected by my hypervigilance, where I still seem to miss what is most important, and no matter how much I try to hold everything together, I cannot keep things from unraveling.
How do I continue to remain caring and yet not take on burdens that are not mine to carry?
This then is the strange choreography of relationship, the stumbling herky-jerky movements of a marionette pulled by invisible strings, revealed in the bright lights of another angry stage.
Yet we dance.
Through the pain of revelation.
The occasional stepping on of toes.
In the percieved exposure of audience eyes.
Shedding these inadequate masks and costumes one by one.
Finding our own rhythm in the strange movings of this particular
circle of love.
Beg: June 5, 2026
Fin: June 30, 2026 -
The Dance of Dissonance
Sometimes
#brainFog #circleOfLove #danceOfRelationship #dissonance #dock #emotionalBoundaries #emotionalReflection #empathy #GriefAndGrace #healingJourney #humanRelationships #hypervigilance #innerHealing #invisibleStrings #June2026 #labyrinth #marionette #Masks #MentalHealth #pastoralReflection #photorealisticIllustration #relationshipAnxiety #selfCompassion #SelfDoubt #SpiritualReflection #stage #surrealArt #surrealism #symbolicArt #unraveling #vulnerability
I find myself lost
at the end of
a confusing day
trying to decipher labyrinthian relations
and coming up short,
suddenly wondering
how a day I thought good
was not for another,
caught up in
opposing realities
where mine is suspect
and empathy is a struggle.
The brain fog
of past illness
has left its trailing
fingers over my head
like the cigarette smoke
of the man I see one morning standing with his back to me on the dock outside the store where I used to work
and I wonder why he is there.
I am suspicious, feeling responsible for what is no longer mine to care about, so I observe, yet remain at a distance and leave without really discovering if his presence is innocent.
Such is the dance of dissonance.
I am close enough to see your back but too far to see your face clearly,
afraid that if I look too closely I will not like what I see or that I will recognize some ugly part of me.
I want to hear
that which runs
counter to my experience
but I must be honest and say that my capacity to understand the complexities of human behavior is diminishing.
I long for circles that are completely safe,
where the people I pass on the walk home illicit in me feelings other than fear,
lust, guilt, or judgement,
all of which mirror
the overwhelming sense
of dislike
I feel from the
world, and from myself perhaps.
It is my inability to not receive everything personally, this overwhelming sadness, unprotected by my hypervigilance, where I still seem to miss what is most important, and no matter how much I try to hold everything together, I cannot keep things from unraveling.
How do I continue to remain caring and yet not take on burdens that are not mine to carry?
This then is the strange choreography of relationship, the stumbling herky-jerky movements of a marionette pulled by invisible strings, revealed in the bright lights of another angry stage.
Yet we dance.
Through the pain of revelation.
The occasional stepping on of toes.
In the percieved exposure of audience eyes.
Shedding these inadequate masks and costumes one by one.
Finding our own rhythm in the strange movings of this particular
circle of love.
Beg: June 5, 2026
Fin: June 30, 2026 -
The Dance of Dissonance
Sometimes
#brainFog #circleOfLove #danceOfRelationship #dissonance #dock #emotionalBoundaries #emotionalReflection #empathy #GriefAndGrace #healingJourney #humanRelationships #hypervigilance #innerHealing #invisibleStrings #June2026 #labyrinth #marionette #Masks #MentalHealth #pastoralReflection #photorealisticIllustration #relationshipAnxiety #selfCompassion #SelfDoubt #SpiritualReflection #stage #surrealArt #surrealism #symbolicArt #unraveling #vulnerability
I find myself lost
at the end of
a confusing day
trying to decipher labyrinthian relations
and coming up short,
suddenly wondering
how a day I thought good
was not for another,
caught up in
opposing realities
where mine is suspect
and empathy is a struggle.
The brain fog
of past illness
has left its trailing
fingers over my head
like the cigarette smoke
of the man I see one morning standing with his back to me on the dock outside the store where I used to work
and I wonder why he is there.
I am suspicious, feeling responsible for what is no longer mine to care about, so I observe, yet remain at a distance and leave without really discovering if his presence is innocent.
Such is the dance of dissonance.
I am close enough to see your back but too far to see your face clearly,
afraid that if I look too closely I will not like what I see or that I will recognize some ugly part of me.
I want to hear
that which runs
counter to my experience
but I must be honest and say that my capacity to understand the complexities of human behavior is diminishing.
I long for circles that are completely safe,
where the people I pass on the walk home illicit in me feelings other than fear,
lust, guilt, or judgement,
all of which mirror
the overwhelming sense
of dislike
I feel from the
world, and from myself perhaps.
It is my inability to not receive everything personally, this overwhelming sadness, unprotected by my hypervigilance, where I still seem to miss what is most important, and no matter how much I try to hold everything together, I cannot keep things from unraveling.
How do I continue to remain caring and yet not take on burdens that are not mine to carry?
This then is the strange choreography of relationship, the stumbling herky-jerky movements of a marionette pulled by invisible strings, revealed in the bright lights of another angry stage.
Yet we dance.
Through the pain of revelation.
The occasional stepping on of toes.
In the percieved exposure of audience eyes.
Shedding these inadequate masks and costumes one by one.
Finding our own rhythm in the strange movings of this particular
circle of love.
Beg: June 5, 2026
Fin: June 30, 2026 -
The Dance of Dissonance
Sometimes
#brainFog #circleOfLove #danceOfRelationship #dissonance #dock #emotionalBoundaries #emotionalReflection #empathy #GriefAndGrace #healingJourney #humanRelationships #hypervigilance #innerHealing #invisibleStrings #June2026 #labyrinth #marionette #Masks #MentalHealth #pastoralReflection #photorealisticIllustration #relationshipAnxiety #selfCompassion #SelfDoubt #SpiritualReflection #stage #surrealArt #surrealism #symbolicArt #unraveling #vulnerability
I find myself lost
at the end of
a confusing day
trying to decipher labyrinthian relations
and coming up short,
suddenly wondering
how a day I thought good
was not for another,
caught up in
opposing realities
where mine is suspect
and empathy is a struggle.
The brain fog
of past illness
has left its trailing
fingers over my head
like the cigarette smoke
of the man I see one morning standing with his back to me on the dock outside the store where I used to work
and I wonder why he is there.
I am suspicious, feeling responsible for what is no longer mine to care about, so I observe, yet remain at a distance and leave without really discovering if his presence is innocent.
Such is the dance of dissonance.
I am close enough to see your back but too far to see your face clearly,
afraid that if I look too closely I will not like what I see or that I will recognize some ugly part of me.
I want to hear
that which runs
counter to my experience
but I must be honest and say that my capacity to understand the complexities of human behavior is diminishing.
I long for circles that are completely safe,
where the people I pass on the walk home illicit in me feelings other than fear,
lust, guilt, or judgement,
all of which mirror
the overwhelming sense
of dislike
I feel from the
world, and from myself perhaps.
It is my inability to not receive everything personally, this overwhelming sadness, unprotected by my hypervigilance, where I still seem to miss what is most important, and no matter how much I try to hold everything together, I cannot keep things from unraveling.
How do I continue to remain caring and yet not take on burdens that are not mine to carry?
This then is the strange choreography of relationship, the stumbling herky-jerky movements of a marionette pulled by invisible strings, revealed in the bright lights of another angry stage.
Yet we dance.
Through the pain of revelation.
The occasional stepping on of toes.
In the percieved exposure of audience eyes.
Shedding these inadequate masks and costumes one by one.
Finding our own rhythm in the strange movings of this particular
circle of love.
Beg: June 5, 2026
Fin: June 30, 2026 -
The Dance of Dissonance
Sometimes
#brainFog #circleOfLove #danceOfRelationship #dissonance #dock #emotionalBoundaries #emotionalReflection #empathy #GriefAndGrace #healingJourney #humanRelationships #hypervigilance #innerHealing #invisibleStrings #June2026 #labyrinth #marionette #Masks #MentalHealth #pastoralReflection #photorealisticIllustration #relationshipAnxiety #selfCompassion #SelfDoubt #SpiritualReflection #stage #surrealArt #surrealism #symbolicArt #unraveling #vulnerability
I find myself lost
at the end of
a confusing day
trying to decipher labyrinthian relations
and coming up short,
suddenly wondering
how a day I thought good
was not for another,
caught up in
opposing realities
where mine is suspect
and empathy is a struggle.
The brain fog
of past illness
has left its trailing
fingers over my head
like the cigarette smoke
of the man I see one morning standing with his back to me on the dock outside the store where I used to work
and I wonder why he is there.
I am suspicious, feeling responsible for what is no longer mine to care about, so I observe, yet remain at a distance and leave without really discovering if his presence is innocent.
Such is the dance of dissonance.
I am close enough to see your back but too far to see your face clearly,
afraid that if I look too closely I will not like what I see or that I will recognize some ugly part of me.
I want to hear
that which runs
counter to my experience
but I must be honest and say that my capacity to understand the complexities of human behavior is diminishing.
I long for circles that are completely safe,
where the people I pass on the walk home illicit in me feelings other than fear,
lust, guilt, or judgement,
all of which mirror
the overwhelming sense
of dislike
I feel from the
world, and from myself perhaps.
It is my inability to not receive everything personally, this overwhelming sadness, unprotected by my hypervigilance, where I still seem to miss what is most important, and no matter how much I try to hold everything together, I cannot keep things from unraveling.
How do I continue to remain caring and yet not take on burdens that are not mine to carry?
This then is the strange choreography of relationship, the stumbling herky-jerky movements of a marionette pulled by invisible strings, revealed in the bright lights of another angry stage.
Yet we dance.
Through the pain of revelation.
The occasional stepping on of toes.
In the percieved exposure of audience eyes.
Shedding these inadequate masks and costumes one by one.
Finding our own rhythm in the strange movings of this particular
circle of love.
Beg: June 5, 2026
Fin: June 30, 2026 -
Self-doubt fades the moment you stop treating it like truth.
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#SelfDoubt #BuildConfidence #DoItScared #MindsetShift #SelfBelief #PersonalGrowth #ThinkandGrowEducation #RayBehan #Doubt #Personality -
#FabuFriday… Certainty and Steadiness…
#IntentionalThriving #EmotionalWisdom #Change #SelfDoubt #Resilience #TrustInSelf #Grounded
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https://pegaphinz.com = Byte Wise Thriving -
#FabuFriday… Certainty and Steadiness…
#IntentionalThriving #EmotionalWisdom #Change #SelfDoubt #Resilience #TrustInSelf #Grounded
Read On:
https://tinyurl.com/Grounded-Trust@zponderings
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https://pegaphinz.com = Byte Wise Thriving -
#FabuFriday… Certainty and Steadiness…
#IntentionalThriving #EmotionalWisdom #Change #SelfDoubt #Resilience #TrustInSelf #Grounded
Read On:
https://tinyurl.com/Grounded-Trust@zponderings
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Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 14, § 100 (3.14.100) (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/11352/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hoffer #erichoffer #accusation #error #flaws #guilt #imperfections #projection #selfcontempt #selfcriticism #selfdoubt #selfhatred #selfimage #selfloathing #sensitivity #shame #shortcomings #weaknesses
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Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 14, § 100 (3.14.100) (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/11352/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hoffer #erichoffer #accusation #error #flaws #guilt #imperfections #projection #selfcontempt #selfcriticism #selfdoubt #selfhatred #selfimage #selfloathing #sensitivity #shame #shortcomings #weaknesses
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Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 14, § 100 (3.14.100) (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/11352/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hoffer #erichoffer #accusation #error #flaws #guilt #imperfections #projection #selfcontempt #selfcriticism #selfdoubt #selfhatred #selfimage #selfloathing #sensitivity #shame #shortcomings #weaknesses
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Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 14, § 100 (3.14.100) (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/11352/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hoffer #erichoffer #accusation #error #flaws #guilt #imperfections #projection #selfcontempt #selfcriticism #selfdoubt #selfhatred #selfimage #selfloathing #sensitivity #shame #shortcomings #weaknesses
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Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 14, § 100 (3.14.100) (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/11352/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hoffer #erichoffer #accusation #error #flaws #guilt #imperfections #projection #selfcontempt #selfcriticism #selfdoubt #selfhatred #selfimage #selfloathing #sensitivity #shame #shortcomings #weaknesses
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Grounded Within ~ Building Trust from the Inside Out…
#IntentionalThriving #EmotionalWisdom #Change #SelfDoubt #Resilience #TrustInSelf #Grounded
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https://linktr.ee/ChangeAndThrivalHood = Change and ThrivalHood
https://pegaphinz.com = Byte Wise Thriving -
Grounded Within ~ Building Trust from the Inside Out…
#IntentionalThriving #EmotionalWisdom #Change #SelfDoubt #Resilience #TrustInSelf #Grounded
Read On:
tinyurl.com/Grounded-Trust@zponderings
https://linktr.ee/ChangeAndThrivalHood = Change and ThrivalHood
https://pegaphinz.com = Byte Wise Thriving -
Grounded Within ~ Building Trust from the Inside Out…
#IntentionalThriving #EmotionalWisdom #Change #SelfDoubt #Resilience #TrustInSelf #Grounded
Read On:
tinyurl.com/Grounded-Trust@zponderings
https://linktr.ee/ChangeAndThrivalHood = Change and ThrivalHood
https://pegaphinz.com = Byte Wise Thriving -
Grounded Within ~ Building Trust from the Inside Out…
#IntentionalThriving #EmotionalWisdom #Change #SelfDoubt #Resilience #TrustInSelf #Grounded
Read On:
https://tinyurl.com/Grounded-Trust@zponderings
https://linktr.ee/ChangeAndThrivalHood = Change and ThrivalHood
https://pegaphinz.com = Byte Wise Thriving -
Grounded Within ~ Building Trust from the Inside Out…
#IntentionalThriving #EmotionalWisdom #Change #SelfDoubt #Resilience #TrustInSelf #Grounded
Read On:
https://tinyurl.com/Grounded-Trust@zponderings
https://linktr.ee/ChangeAndThrivalHood = Change and ThrivalHood
https://pegaphinz.com = Byte Wise Thriving -
Grounded Within ~ Building Trust from the Inside Out…
#IntentionalThriving #EmotionalWisdom #Change #SelfDoubt #Resilience #TrustInSelf #Grounded
Read On:
https://tinyurl.com/Grounded-Trust@zponderings
https://linktr.ee/ChangeAndThrivalHood = Change and ThrivalHood
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
No considerate man can approach marriage without deep concern. I, he will think, who have made hitherto so poor a business of my own life, am now about to embrace the responsibility of another’s. Henceforth, there shall be two to suffer from my faults; and that other is the one whom I most desire to shield from suffering.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 10.1 “Marriage”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #inadequacy #anxiety #concern #consideration #love #marriage #responsibility #selfdeprecation #selfdoubt #spouse #worry
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
No considerate man can approach marriage without deep concern. I, he will think, who have made hitherto so poor a business of my own life, am now about to embrace the responsibility of another’s. Henceforth, there shall be two to suffer from my faults; and that other is the one whom I most desire to shield from suffering.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 10.1 “Marriage”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #inadequacy #anxiety #concern #consideration #love #marriage #responsibility #selfdeprecation #selfdoubt #spouse #worry
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
No considerate man can approach marriage without deep concern. I, he will think, who have made hitherto so poor a business of my own life, am now about to embrace the responsibility of another’s. Henceforth, there shall be two to suffer from my faults; and that other is the one whom I most desire to shield from suffering.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 10.1 “Marriage”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #inadequacy #anxiety #concern #consideration #love #marriage #responsibility #selfdeprecation #selfdoubt #spouse #worry
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
No considerate man can approach marriage without deep concern. I, he will think, who have made hitherto so poor a business of my own life, am now about to embrace the responsibility of another’s. Henceforth, there shall be two to suffer from my faults; and that other is the one whom I most desire to shield from suffering.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 10.1 “Marriage”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #inadequacy #anxiety #concern #consideration #love #marriage #responsibility #selfdeprecation #selfdoubt #spouse #worry
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
No considerate man can approach marriage without deep concern. I, he will think, who have made hitherto so poor a business of my own life, am now about to embrace the responsibility of another’s. Henceforth, there shall be two to suffer from my faults; and that other is the one whom I most desire to shield from suffering.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 10.1 “Marriage”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #inadequacy #anxiety #concern #consideration #love #marriage #responsibility #selfdeprecation #selfdoubt #spouse #worry
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LeBron James explains how he gets doubt out of his system: “You’re giving the time to the process” https://www.rawchili.com/5015628/ #LebronJames #NBA #SelfDoubt #SteveNash
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LeBron James explains how he gets doubt out of his system: “You’re giving the time to the process” https://www.rawchili.com/5015628/ #LebronJames #NBA #SelfDoubt #SteveNash
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
Never allow your mind to dwell on your own misconduct: that is ruin. The conscience has morbid sensibilities; it must be employed but not indulged, like the imagination or the stomach.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 7.1 “Discipline of Conscience”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #conscience #despondency #error #failure #misconduct #morbidity #obsession #selfblame #selfcondemnation #selfcriticism #selfdeprecation #selfdoubt #selfhatred #selfjudgment #selfloathing #selfreproach #shortcomings #sins
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
Never allow your mind to dwell on your own misconduct: that is ruin. The conscience has morbid sensibilities; it must be employed but not indulged, like the imagination or the stomach.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 7.1 “Discipline of Conscience”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #conscience #despondency #error #failure #misconduct #morbidity #obsession #selfblame #selfcondemnation #selfcriticism #selfdeprecation #selfdoubt #selfhatred #selfjudgment #selfloathing #selfreproach #shortcomings #sins
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
Never allow your mind to dwell on your own misconduct: that is ruin. The conscience has morbid sensibilities; it must be employed but not indulged, like the imagination or the stomach.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 7.1 “Discipline of Conscience”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #conscience #despondency #error #failure #misconduct #morbidity #obsession #selfblame #selfcondemnation #selfcriticism #selfdeprecation #selfdoubt #selfhatred #selfjudgment #selfloathing #selfreproach #shortcomings #sins
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
Never allow your mind to dwell on your own misconduct: that is ruin. The conscience has morbid sensibilities; it must be employed but not indulged, like the imagination or the stomach.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 7.1 “Discipline of Conscience”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #conscience #despondency #error #failure #misconduct #morbidity #obsession #selfblame #selfcondemnation #selfcriticism #selfdeprecation #selfdoubt #selfhatred #selfjudgment #selfloathing #selfreproach #shortcomings #sins
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
It is the business of this life to make excuses for others, but none for ourselves. We should be clearly persuaded of our own misconduct, for that is the part of knowledge in which we are most apt to be defective.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 1.1 “Justice and Justification”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #criticism #excuses #forgiveness #selfawareness #selfblame #selfconsciousness #selfcorrection #selfcriticism #selfdiscipline #selfdoubt #selfevaluation #selfimprovement #selfjudgment #selfopinion #selfregard #blame #selfblame #accountability
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
It is the business of this life to make excuses for others, but none for ourselves. We should be clearly persuaded of our own misconduct, for that is the part of knowledge in which we are most apt to be defective.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 1.1 “Justice and Justification”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #criticism #excuses #forgiveness #selfawareness #selfblame #selfconsciousness #selfcorrection #selfcriticism #selfdiscipline #selfdoubt #selfevaluation #selfimprovement #selfjudgment #selfopinion #selfregard #blame #selfblame #accountability
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
It is the business of this life to make excuses for others, but none for ourselves. We should be clearly persuaded of our own misconduct, for that is the part of knowledge in which we are most apt to be defective.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 1.1 “Justice and Justification”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
It is the business of this life to make excuses for others, but none for ourselves. We should be clearly persuaded of our own misconduct, for that is the part of knowledge in which we are most apt to be defective.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 1.1 “Justice and Justification”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #criticism #excuses #forgiveness #selfawareness #selfblame #selfconsciousness #selfcorrection #selfcriticism #selfdiscipline #selfdoubt #selfevaluation #selfimprovement #selfjudgment #selfopinion #selfregard #blame #selfblame #accountability
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Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, “to be free from freedom.” It was not sheer hypocrisy when the rank-and-file Nazis declared themselves not guilty of all the enormities they had committed. They considered themselves cheated and maligned when made to shoulder responsibility for obeying orders. Had they not joined the Nazi movement in order to be free from responsibility?
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 2, ch. 5, § 26 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/10751/
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Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, “to be free from freedom.” It was not sheer hypocrisy when the rank-and-file Nazis declared themselves not guilty of all the enormities they had committed. They considered themselves cheated and maligned when made to shoulder responsibility for obeying orders. Had they not joined the Nazi movement in order to be free from responsibility?
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 2, ch. 5, § 26 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/10751/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #burden #cause #collectiveguilt #control #escape #freedom #individual #movement #obedience #orders #responsibility #selfcontempt #selfdeprecation #selfdoubt #selfimage #selfliberation #selfopinion #selfregard #selfrespect #selfresponsibility #truebeliever
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Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, “to be free from freedom.” It was not sheer hypocrisy when the rank-and-file Nazis declared themselves not guilty of all the enormities they had committed. They considered themselves cheated and maligned when made to shoulder responsibility for obeying orders. Had they not joined the Nazi movement in order to be free from responsibility?
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 2, ch. 5, § 26 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/10751/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #burden #cause #collectiveguilt #control #escape #freedom #individual #movement #obedience #orders #responsibility #selfcontempt #selfdeprecation #selfdoubt #selfimage #selfliberation #selfopinion #selfregard #selfrespect #selfresponsibility #truebeliever
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Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, “to be free from freedom.” It was not sheer hypocrisy when the rank-and-file Nazis declared themselves not guilty of all the enormities they had committed. They considered themselves cheated and maligned when made to shoulder responsibility for obeying orders. Had they not joined the Nazi movement in order to be free from responsibility?
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 2, ch. 5, § 26 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/10751/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #burden #cause #collectiveguilt #control #escape #freedom #individual #movement #obedience #orders #responsibility #selfcontempt #selfdeprecation #selfdoubt #selfimage #selfliberation #selfopinion #selfregard #selfrespect #selfresponsibility #truebeliever
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The Step You Keep Almost Taking
You know what the next move is. You've written it down. You've seen it across your journal entries. You keep almost making it. This isn't about fear or laziness. It's about waiting for readiness that only ever comes through the step itself. So make the step smaller.https://journalingwrite.wordpress.com/2026/04/30/the-step-you-keep-almost-taking/
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The Step You Keep Almost Taking
You know what the next move is. You've written it down. You've seen it across your journal entries. You keep almost making it. This isn't about fear or laziness. It's about waiting for readiness that only ever comes through the step itself. So make the step smaller.https://journalingwrite.wordpress.com/2026/04/30/the-step-you-keep-almost-taking/
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The Step You Keep Almost Taking
You know what the next move is. You've written it down. You've seen it across your journal entries. You keep almost making it. This isn't about fear or laziness. It's about waiting for readiness that only ever comes through the step itself. So make the step smaller.https://journalingwrite.wordpress.com/2026/04/30/the-step-you-keep-almost-taking/
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The Step You Keep Almost Taking
You know what the next move is. You've written it down. You've seen it across your journal entries. You keep almost making it. This isn't about fear or laziness. It's about waiting for readiness that only ever comes through the step itself. So make the step smaller.https://journalingwrite.wordpress.com/2026/04/30/the-step-you-keep-almost-taking/
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The Step You Keep Almost Taking
You know what the next move is. You've written it down. You've seen it across your journal entries. You keep almost making it. This isn't about fear or laziness. It's about waiting for readiness that only ever comes through the step itself. So make the step smaller.https://journalingwrite.wordpress.com/2026/04/30/the-step-you-keep-almost-taking/
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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
[J’ai la maladie de faire des livres et d’en être honteux quand je les ai faits.]Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Pensées Diverses [Assorted Thoughts], # 83 / 837 (1720-1755)More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/83690/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #author #dissatisfaction #selfcontempt #selfcriticism #selfdeprecation #selfdoubt #selfjudgment #selfloathing #selfperception #shame #writer #writing
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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
[J’ai la maladie de faire des livres et d’en être honteux quand je les ai faits.]Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Pensées Diverses [Assorted Thoughts], # 83 / 837 (1720-1755)More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/83690/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #author #dissatisfaction #selfcontempt #selfcriticism #selfdeprecation #selfdoubt #selfjudgment #selfloathing #selfperception #shame #writer #writing
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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
[J’ai la maladie de faire des livres et d’en être honteux quand je les ai faits.]Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Pensées Diverses [Assorted Thoughts], # 83 / 837 (1720-1755)More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/83690/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #author #dissatisfaction #selfcontempt #selfcriticism #selfdeprecation #selfdoubt #selfjudgment #selfloathing #selfperception #shame #writer #writing
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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
[J’ai la maladie de faire des livres et d’en être honteux quand je les ai faits.]Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Pensées Diverses [Assorted Thoughts], # 83 / 837 (1720-1755)More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/83690/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #author #dissatisfaction #selfcontempt #selfcriticism #selfdeprecation #selfdoubt #selfjudgment #selfloathing #selfperception #shame #writer #writing
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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
[J’ai la maladie de faire des livres et d’en être honteux quand je les ai faits.]Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Pensées Diverses [Assorted Thoughts], # 83 / 837 (1720-1755)More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/83690/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #author #dissatisfaction #selfcontempt #selfcriticism #selfdeprecation #selfdoubt #selfjudgment #selfloathing #selfperception #shame #writer #writing
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I didn’t wake up confident I crawled out of doubt one small promise at a time.
https://de320.isrefer.com/go/UNTHINKABLE/Stuartn/
#FromDoubtToConfidence #MindsetShift #SelfBelief #HealingJourney #InnerWork #ThinkandGrowEducation #RayBehan #SelfDoubt #Perceptions -
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 1, ch. 2, § 8 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/10594/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #cause #devotion #faith #holiness #sacred #selfblame #selfconfidence #selfdoubt #selfquestioning #selfreproach #truebeliever
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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 1, ch. 2, § 8 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/10594/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #cause #devotion #faith #holiness #sacred #selfblame #selfconfidence #selfdoubt #selfquestioning #selfreproach #truebeliever
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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 1, ch. 2, § 8 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/10594/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #cause #devotion #faith #holiness #sacred #selfblame #selfconfidence #selfdoubt #selfquestioning #selfreproach #truebeliever
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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 1, ch. 2, § 8 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/10594/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #cause #devotion #faith #holiness #sacred #selfblame #selfconfidence #selfdoubt #selfquestioning #selfreproach #truebeliever
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CW: Moody self-doubt-filled rambling about mastodon
I don't think I'm going to keep posting on Mastodon. Maybe I just haven't made enough of an effort and I'm giving up too easily but to be honest, I just don't feel like I have strong enough of a personality right now to ever do what I hoped to come here to: make friends and cheer people up.
When I posted here, replied, liked, interacted here, I didn't feel like I was connecting with someone, I felt like I was trying to infiltrate a community I have no place in. Everyone's already made their friends, everyone's already got their tight-knit groups, and I don't have anything I can offer that would make anyone care in the slightest; I might as well just upkeep my regular blog, since the only extra Mastodon seems to be giving me is insecurity by seeing everyone else just... Being someone worth being.
This note is just to sate anyone's curiosity on why I'm not posting here, if that ever happens.
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CW: Moody self-doubt-filled rambling about mastodon
I don't think I'm going to keep posting on Mastodon. Maybe I just haven't made enough of an effort and I'm giving up too easily but to be honest, I just don't feel like I have strong enough of a personality right now to ever do what I hoped to come here to: make friends and cheer people up.
When I posted here, replied, liked, interacted here, I didn't feel like I was connecting with someone, I felt like I was trying to infiltrate a community I have no place in. Everyone's already made their friends, everyone's already got their tight-knit groups, and I don't have anything I can offer that would make anyone care in the slightest; I might as well just upkeep my regular blog, since the only extra Mastodon seems to be giving me is insecurity by seeing everyone else just... Being someone worth being.
This note is just to sate anyone's curiosity on why I'm not posting here, if that ever happens.
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I'm fighting with a lot of self doubt demons today. They surely a legion attacking to me one after another. #selfdoubt #anxiety
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I'm fighting with a lot of self doubt demons today. They surely a legion attacking to me one after another. #selfdoubt #anxiety
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I'm fighting with a lot of self doubt demons today. They surely a legion attacking to me one after another. #selfdoubt #anxiety
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I'm fighting with a lot of self doubt demons today. They surely a legion attacking to me one after another. #selfdoubt #anxiety