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  1. A quotation from Eric Hoffer

    Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us. There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

    Eric Hoffer (1902–1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 14, § 69 (3.14.69) (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/11001/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #truebeliever #conscience #defiance #guilt #guiltyconscience #selfdistraction #selfhatred #selfloathing #selfrighteousness #shame

  2. A quotation from Eric Hoffer

    Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us. There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

    Eric Hoffer (1902–1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 14, § 69 (3.14.69) (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/11001/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #truebeliever #conscience #defiance #guilt #guiltyconscience #selfdistraction #selfhatred #selfloathing #selfrighteousness #shame

  3. A quotation from Eric Hoffer

    Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us. There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

    Eric Hoffer (1902–1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 14, § 69 (3.14.69) (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/11001/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #truebeliever #conscience #defiance #guilt #guiltyconscience #selfdistraction #selfhatred #selfloathing #selfrighteousness #shame

  4. A quotation from Eric Hoffer

    Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us. There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

    Eric Hoffer (1902–1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 14, § 69 (3.14.69) (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/11001/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #truebeliever #conscience #defiance #guilt #guiltyconscience #selfdistraction #selfhatred #selfloathing #selfrighteousness #shame

  5. Kevin's Limerick of the Day

    Get the Bleep Out

    A censor should not feel so guiltless
    Blipping content so no one can witness
    It’s always the same
    They never feel shame

    Putting their “no’s” in other folks’ business

    #funny #comedy #laugh #silly #humor #humour #verse #poetry #poem #limerick #censor #screen #shame #business

  6. Ukraine update from Giorgio Provinciali: Belarus should not be ignored, even though the western world seems to assume it is safe. Ukraine knows better. Ukraine is waiting for them.

    Share the friend link to bypass the paywall and disrupt the dominant paradigm: medium.com/@giorgioprovinciali

    #ukraine #journalism #reporter #news #press #war #russia #russiaisATerroristState #terror #warcrimes #complicit #USA #trump #maga #billionaires #corrupt #greed #cruelty #shame #disapointment #resist #fight #advocate #supportIndependentMedia

  7. The Places in My Dreams

    The world within, the world of my dreams, is similar to the one I walk through every day. But it is different.

    The streets bend strangely. The rooms open where they should not. The people and places are often indifferent to me, and sometimes, they are even antagonistic.

    They are not merely people and places. They are representations of emotions I have not yet worked through from the previous day. Sixteen waking hours are not enough to fully grasp all that I have experienced, endured, feared, desired, regretted, or misunderstood.

    And so, in the night, these things come alive.

    They take on faces. They become houses, roads, crowds, locked doors, ruined landscapes, familiar rooms made unfamiliar. They guide me through the shadow lands—not always kindly, but truthfully. They show me what I could not see while awake.

    My dreams are not escapes from the day.

    They are the day returning in another form, asking to be understood.

    Some nights I find myself back in places I have never been, and yet they feel older than memory. A school that was never my school. A church with hallways that keep multiplying. A childhood home rearranged by grief. A city I know by instinct, though no map has ever held it.

    In these places, I am often trying to get somewhere.

    I am late. I am lost. I am looking for someone. I am trying to explain myself to people who will not listen. I am searching for a room, a door, a vehicle, a path, a way home. Sometimes I am carrying something fragile. Sometimes I have forgotten what I was supposed to carry. Sometimes I am responsible for a task I do not understand, surrounded by people who seem to know the rules but refuse to tell me.

    This is the cruelty of the dream world: everyone else seems initiated.

    They move through the strange landscape as if it is ordinary. They know which hallway leads out, which road is safe, which bus to board, which door not to open. I am the stranger in a world that somehow belongs to me. I am the dreamer, and yet I am not in control.

    Perhaps this is why the places feel antagonistic. They do not hate me. They are simply unwilling to flatter me. They will not pretend I am finished with what I have not faced. They will not comfort me with easy explanations. They turn my emotions into architecture and ask me to walk through them.

    Fear becomes a narrow bridge.

    Regret becomes a house with too many locked rooms.

    Anger becomes a storm on the edge of town.

    Shame becomes a crowd that sees me before I am ready to be seen.

    Grief becomes a road that always returns to the same place.

    And longing—longing becomes a light in a window I can never quite reach.

    I wake from these dreams with the feeling that I have traveled farther than my body could have gone. I have crossed cities, fields, stairways, basements, sanctuaries, ruins, and train stations. I have spoken with the dead and avoided the living. I have been judged by strangers and ignored by friends. I have wandered through the unfinished weather of my own soul.

    Then morning comes, and the ordinary world returns.

    The walls are where I left them. The floor is solid. The dog needs to go out. The coffee waits. The phone glows with its small demands. The day begins again, pretending to be separate from the night.

    But I know better.

    The dream has left its residue. A feeling follows me, sometimes faint, sometimes heavy. A hallway from the dream lingers inside the hallway of the house. A face from the night appears behind the face of someone I know. A mood clings to the morning like fog.

    The shadow lands do not vanish when I wake.

    They retreat.

    They wait beneath the visible world, beneath errands and conversations, beneath sermons and chores, beneath the version of myself that knows how to answer when someone asks, “How are you?”

    I say, “I’m fine.”

    But somewhere beneath that answer, an entire city is still burning, or flooding, or rebuilding itself in the dark.

    #ContemplativeWriting #creativeNonfiction #daVinci #dali #dreamCity #dreamJournal #dreams #dreamscape #emotionalGeography #Escher #Fear #gothicReflection #grief #Healing #Imagination #impossibleArchitecture #innerLandscape #innerWorld #KeithLyndaker #labyrinth #longing #MentalHealth #nightVisions #ProsePoem #regret #sacredImagination #selfReflection #shadowLands #shame #SpiritualReflection #subconscious #surrealArt #surrealism #symbolicLandscape #visionaryArt
  8. A quotation from Eric Hoffer

    Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.

    Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 14, § 69 (3.14.69) (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/11001/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #truebeliever #conscience #guilt #guiltyconscience #selfhatred #selfloathing #selfrighteousness #shame #selfcontempt

  9. A quotation from Eric Hoffer

    Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.

    Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 14, § 69 (3.14.69) (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/11001/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #truebeliever #conscience #guilt #guiltyconscience #selfhatred #selfloathing #selfrighteousness #shame #selfcontempt

  10. A quotation from Eric Hoffer

    Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.

    Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 14, § 69 (3.14.69) (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/11001/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #truebeliever #conscience #guilt #guiltyconscience #selfhatred #selfloathing #selfrighteousness #shame #selfcontempt

  11. A quotation from Eric Hoffer

    Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.

    Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 14, § 69 (3.14.69) (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/11001/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #truebeliever #conscience #guilt #guiltyconscience #selfhatred #selfloathing #selfrighteousness #shame #selfcontempt

  12. A quotation from Brennan Manning

    When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God’s gift of grace.

    Brennan Manning (1934-2013) American author, laicized priest, theologian, speaker [Richard Francis Xavier Manning]
    The Ragamuffin Gospel, ch. 6 “Grazie, Signore” (1990)

    More about this quote: wist.info/manning-brennan/8381…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #brennanmanning #ivinegrace #divinelove #God #grace #guilt #remorse #selfindulgence #shame #sinfulness #sins #wallowing

  13. A quotation from Bill Watterson

    CALVIN: Hobbes, do you think our morality is defined by our actions, or by what’s in our hearts?
    HOBBES: I think our actions show what’s in our hearts.
    CALVIN: (after consideration) I resent that!

    Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
    Calvin and Hobbes (1990-10-18)

    More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/83114…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #actions #bestintentions #conscience #goodintentions #heart #integrity #intentions #morality #motivations #motives #virtue #wellintentioned #wordsanddeeds #aspersions #guilt #shame

  14. Probably the ugliest hotel (and building in general) I've seen in my life.
    Excalibur Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas.
    2023-06-27

    #facepalm #shame #eyesore #hotel #casino #LasVegas #architecture #brutalism #fail #ugly #amateur #kitsch #faux

  15. CW: re: Thread, kink, bisexuality, self-acceptance, love, personal growth, US pol

    I would also want to tell her that the only way through all the #grief, the internalized #biphobia, the #shame, and the confusion is through. And it's not a way out. Those things are still and likely always will be, to some extent, with her. But she'll learn to live with them, and along the way, she'll still find #SelfAcceptance. She'll still find #love, both from other people and from herself. She'll find that #shame and #pride can co-exist, and that in a paradoxical way, the pride can come from the shame. She'll discover that being #bisexual isn't the combination of being straight and gay that she saw in the media but that it's an amorphous, third thing that can really only exist and be embodied by each individual, bi person who is living out what #bisexuality means to them. She'll learn that that's what makes it so powerful and so distrusted and shunned by people who want easy, rigid, simplistic ways of understanding #sexuality.

  16. CW: re: Thread, kink, bisexuality, self-acceptance, love, personal growth, US pol

    I began this thread with acknowledging that I was very messily online about my feelings around #ComingOut later in life as #bisexual, as #queer, because I wanted to leave something for someone else, anyone else, who might resonate with it. I was also doing it for my closeted self who wasn't able to grapple with those feelings.

    I feel like this thread has been for my past self who was out but who was conflicted about her place in the #LGBTQ community, who was struggling with internalized #biphobia an a lot of #shame, and who was grieving who and what she could have been. I want to tell her it's okay. It's okay for her to feel all the confusion and grief and shame. I want to tell her that, even though she can't see it, there is a way through it all. It doesn't look like what she thinks it does. It's going to involve her shedding some maladaptive ways of thinking to deepen her understanding of love and of herself.

  17. A quotation from Eric Hoffer

    A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy, malice, pettiness and dishonesty. There is a wall of words between his consciousness and his real self.

    Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 68 (1955)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hoffer-eric/16513/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #delusion #belief #conscience #devotion #doctrine #dogma #fanatic #selfawareness #selfdeception #shame #zealot

  18. Kiintoisa kurkkaus häpeään TT 2/2025:ssä Ahti Lampisen näppäimistöltä, journal.fi/tt/article/view/160

    Häpeä voi olla "kuin silmälasit, joiden kautta ihminen tarkastelee sekä itseään että maailmaa". Jos sitä ei huomata taustalla, moni muu jäytävä ongelma voi jäädä pimentoon ja apu saamatta.

    #häpeä #shame #tutkimus #research #psykologia #psychology #mieli #mind #self #ego #terveys #health

  19. @kevinrothrock

    If, someday, #USAnians look around and wonder what happened to their national status and prestige in the world, they will have an unusually clear transition point to look at.

    Today will be looked back on as the day the rest of the world stopped even pretending to believe Americans' "we are the shining city on the hill, an example to the world" credo had the slightest bit of truth left to it.

    Embarrassing. Shameful.

    #shame #NationalShame #USA #Ukraine #Europe #EU #NATO

  20. Locked Up Living Mark Stibbe (Video) •Understanding Shame and Attachment in Childhood: In this conversation the author, Mark Stibbe shares his profound journey from a challenging early life marked by adoption and separation to his experiences in boarding school, where he faced emotional and physical challenges. He discusses the impact of shame and attachment issues stemming from his… lockedupliving.podbean.com/e/m @lockedupliving #ChildhoodTrauma #Shame #AttachmentTheory #MentalHealth #Resilience

  21. #MFA DG admits lying to ministry abt use of #diplomaticbags
    "Judge Sripathy-Shanaz questioned the level of potential harm tt came fr a #highranking #publicservant #lying to thwart internal investigations, which cld #undermine public #trust in the institution he served. "Wouldn't this attempt to subvert MFA's internal investigative process carry significant potential harm, esp'ly given the fact tt tis was no ordinary public servant but a #directorgeneral"
    #Singapore #shame
    channelnewsasia.com/singapore/

  22. #AlsoNotice: #TheCompleteAbsence of #LotRO...

    #IT's a #Shame that #SSG couldn't find a #CompetentPerson to #Manage their #RacistHomophobes; but, that's #WhatHappens when you #Employ #MiserableMorons and #LetThem #RunRampant on your #ShoddyGame while #CommittingFraud...

    #ToldYouSo, and I'll #KeepTellingYou... #BecauseICan...

    #SucksToBeThem...

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  23. im Vergleich, #Amazon #Kdp #Selfpublishing - bei Taschenbuch:

    Rund 10 Euro nimmt der Druck.

    Von den restlichen rund 7 Euro sehe ich als Autorin .... 21 cent.

    #Shame #Buchbranche #Bookbubble #Buch #Buchbubble

  24. #TheWhale: "...… a tender and frequently overwhelming character #drama, albeit carrying Aronofsky’s love-it-or-hate-it penchant for directness and preoccupation with metaphysics."

    Aronofsky is one of my all-time favourite filmmakers, so yeah, I'm on the 'love it' side of things here.

    Full review at FilmInk: filmink.com.au/reviews/the-wha #film #movies #filmreview #moviereview #brendanfraser #darrenaronofsky #sadiesink #hongchau #tysimpkins #guilt #shame #excommunication #divisive #LGBTQ

  25. I am so sick and tired of browser makers having to mangle their user-agent strings because site developers do astoundingly clumsy, half-assed, thoughtless browser sniffing.

    By the time IE11 was out, people should have learned from the many previous examples of this. But apparently not.

    People like this make me so angry.

    ghacks.net/2023/01/01/mozilla-

    #Mozilla #Firefox #badCoding #browserSniffing #shame