Michele Pasin / Quotes

Il ritratto che dipingiamo noi

Lui guarda via; dice “Spesso quando trovi qualcosa pensi che sia perché l’avevi cercata”. “E non è così?” dice lei. Vorrebbe saperlo; le servirebbe. Lui…

Leielui (italian Edition) (de Carlo, Andrea) #illusion #perception #meaning #self-deception

Le fantasie dei romanzi e delle canzoni

E lui, cosa diavolo vuole? Cosa va cercando? Insegue ancora le fantasie che si è ficcato in testa con i romanzi che divorava da ragazzino per sottrarsi a una…

L'imperfetta meraviglia (Andrea De Carlo) #fiction #music #imagination #self-deception

All winners need losers, all saints need sinners

Saints have always declared themselves as abject sinners—through recognition that their aspiration to be saintly is motivated by the worst of all sins…

The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are #pride #ego #game #people #unselfishness

Anattā, the Buddhist no-self

Like any other old and geographically dispersed belief system, Buddhism ceased to be a singular system of thought many centuries ago. It is therefore…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #Buddhism #self #ego

Bicycle Day and the origin of the trip

Soon after he ingested the drug, his entire world began to transform—the colors, the forms—and he felt his ego begin to dissolve. Hofmann grew afraid he had…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #psychedelics #time #ego #history

Blacking out in the bath

Finally, I washed them down with a wineglass of water and repacked the rest in the foil. I had barely stashed it away when the trip started to come on. I had…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #psychedelics #fear #ego #risk