"You only change through suffering. otherwise why would you change, it's working!"

- Richard Rohr

If you dream about something, let's say delightful (food/sex/party), does your brain work the same way it works when you do these delightful things while awake?

In an oversimplified way:
If you dream that you are happy, do your Serotonin & Dopamine levels get high too (the brain responds as if you are awake) ?

"The existence in the universe doesn't have any destination that is ought to be arrived at. We thought of life by analogy with a journey. A pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end and the thing was to get to that end. But we miss the point the whole way along, it was a musical thing, and you were supposed to dance."

- Alan Watts

اليوم تذكرتهاا

لا أستطيع تحمُل حقيقة أنَ كُل هذا سيُفنى.

'I can't get over the fact that all of this is doing to die. All this life is going to decay. Everything dissolves in meaninglessness. There's a sadness to the ecstasy.'

"Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever."

- Ernest Becker

"Two elderly women are at a Catskill Mountain resort. And one of 'em says: 'Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.' The other one says: 'Yeah, I know. And such small portions.' Well, that's essentially how I feel about life. Full of loneliness and misery and suffering and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly."

- Annie Hall 😂💚🍻

I guess "quickly" here means a good thing

+ اوك وصلت الفكرة رح اشوف الفلم

I'm not afraid of the dark.
Perhaps that's part of the problem.
'Try to count sheeps'.
My mind only count reasons to stay awake.
Mom asks me if I'm afraid of dying?
No, I am afraid of living.
I'm just a careless tourist here.

'Camcorders. Here is technology gone berserk. Everywhere you go now there's some dick and he's going to tape everything!
Doesn't anyone in this country just stop and look at things anymore? Sort of take them in. Maybe even, pff, remember them!
Is that such a strange notion? Does experience have to be documented and brought home and saved on a shelf. And do people really watch this shit?! Are people lives so bankrupt that they sit at home looking at things they already did!?'

- George Carlin😂🌚🍻

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Falling down 1993 is a great film depiction for how sadness might turn into madness.