#exhaustion

Becoming aware of our inner man and woman means to discover the roots and creative potential of both the male and female aspect within ourselves. Becoming aware of the inner man and woman means to understand that they have different visions of life. It means to understand that they have different perspectives and views of life. The inner man and woman are our two wings of love and freedom. Through awareness, acceptance and understanding, we can allow our two wings to develop in a deep and natural harmony. In the world today, a one-sided development of the male side leads to destructivity. A one-sided development of the male side leads to ego, struggle, exhaustion and a separation from life. A one-sided development of the female side leads to passivity and dependence. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#awareness #creativity #dependence #destructivity #ego

The natural consequence of our submission, even in part, to the system that looks to compelling the export of raw products, the exhaustion of the land, the cheapening of labour, and the export of the labourer. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#consequence #even #exhaustion #export #labour

As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#argue #creation #current #does #exhaustion

The challenge lies in knowing how to bring this sort of day to a close. His mind has been wound to a pitch of concentration by the interactions of the office. Now there are only silence and the flashing of the unset clock on the microwave. He feels as if he had been playing a computer game which remorselessly tested his reflexes, only to have its plug suddenly pulled from the wall. He is impatient and restless, but simultaneously exhausted and fragile. He is in no state to engage with anything significant. It is of course impossible to read, for a sincere book would demand not only time, but also a clear emotional lawn around the text in which associations and anxieties could emerge and be disentangled. He will perhaps only ever do one thing well in his life. For this particular combination of tiredness and nervous energy, the sole workable solution is wine. Office civilisation could not be feasible without the hard take-offs and landings effected by coffee and alcohol. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#coffee #exhaustion #nervous-energy #relaxation #work

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate. ↗

— Dorothea Lange

#hate #love #must #pick #something

Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision. ↗

— Barber Conable

#exhaustion #frequently #legislative

Tom Cruise's attorney said he is going to sue anyone who claims he is gay. In a related story, Ricky Martin's attorney has been hospitalized for exhaustion. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#attorney #been #claims #cruise #exhaustion

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#exhaustion #his #history #man #possibilities

I made a nap this afternoon. I made it out of two pillows, a bed, a sheet, a blanket, and exhaustion. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #sleep #funny

Dark circles under my eyes sink deeper and deeper into my skull, in contrast to my pale skin there is an undeniable resemblance to a fresh corpse. ↗

— Dee Remy

#dying #ego #exhaustion #image #life