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A labyrinth of ideas,
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By Saber Gerami
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Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior. The whole economy of nature is bent on expression. The tell-tale body is all tongues.

للرجالِ الحكماء بصيرةٌ حادة؛ إذ تَراهم يتصفّحونَ تفاصيلَ تاريخِك الشخصي في ملامحِك ومشيَتِك وأفعالِك. طبيعَتُك مَجبولةٌ على التعبير؛ جَسَدُك الواشي له ألفُ لسانٍ ولسان.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nietzsche formulates three tasks for which [teachers] are necessary. One needs to learn to see, to think, and to speak and write. The goal of education, according to Nietzsche, is “noble culture.” Learning to see means “getting your eyes used to calm, to patience, to letting things come to you”—that is, making yourself capable of deep and contemplative attention, casting a long and slow gaze.

— The Burnout Society
Every man has a conscience and finds himself observed, threatened, and, in general, kept in awe (respect coupled with fear) by an internal judge; and this authority watching over the law in him is not something that he himself (voluntarily) makes, but something incorporated into his being.

— The Burnout Society
Those who know, do not speak
Those who speak, do not know

- Lao Tzu
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Those who know, do not speak Those who speak, do not know - Lao Tzu
New travellers on the roads of knowledge are like the nouveau riche: they love to show off their recently acquired wealth/knowledge. You see them eager to debate, to prove a point, to win an argument, and to make their nascent intellect as visible as possible.
This is why you see that most of 'those who speak, do not know.'
Forwarded from Sympósion
قالت لي السمراء:
ما هذي الدموع؟
واسوأ ما في الرجال البكاء
أو كلماتُ الضعف تستجدي الرثاء
تُحَطِّم في داخلي أُسطورة الكبرياء
لرجلٍ يَزعَم: لا تقهره النساء
أو يتحطم شراعُه إذا ما واجه الأنواء

قالت لي السمراء:
بربّك قل لي
أحِينَ يُحِب الرجل ينكسِر؟
أم أنّه بالحب وحدَه ينتصر

(نزار قباني)
Depression—which often culminates in burnout—follows from overexcited, overdriven, excessive self-reference that has assumed destructive traits. The exhausted, depressive achievement-subject grinds itself down, so to speak. It is tired, exhausted by itself, and at war with itself. Entirely incapable of stepping outward, of standing outside itself, of relying on the Other, on the world, it locks its jaws on itself; paradoxically, this leads the self to hollow and empty out. It wears out in a rat race it runs against itself.

— The Burnout Society
One who mourns is entirely with the beloved Other. The late-modern ego devotes the majority of libidinal energy to itself. The remaining libido is distributed and scattered among continually multiplying contacts and fleeting relationships. It proves quite easy to withdraw the weakened libido from the Other and to use it on new objects.
In the social networks [of the late-modern individual], the function of “friends” is primarily to heighten narcissism by granting attention, as consumers, to the ego exhibited as a commodity.
The [modern individual] competes with itself; it succumbs to the destructive compulsion to outdo itself over and over, to jump over its own shadow. This self-constraint, which poses as freedom, has deadly results.
— The Burnout Society