January 2011
144 posts
Depressive realism →
floatingparticles:
Depressive realism is the proposition that people with depression actually have a more accurate perception of reality, specifically that they are less affected by positive illusions of illusory superiority, the illusion of control and optimism bias. The concept refers to people with borderline or moderate depression, suggesting that while non-depressed people see things in an...
“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable...”
– Carl Jung (via -xerces)
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“To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of...”
– William S Burroughs (via philphys)
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“For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos,...”
– Austin Osman Spare (via metaconscious)
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“We are caged by our cultural programming. Culture is a mass hallucination, and...”
– Terence McKenna (via iheartloons)
Few things in life are as important or as precious as self-realization.
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“Most people find the word Apocalypse, to be a terrfying concept. Checked in the...”
– Alan Moore (via universewithin)
I’m weightless… I’m bare ...
“The search for Reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings, for it...”
– Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (via iheartloons)
