[non-paywalled issue] The Rabbit Hole 🕳🐇 issue no.34

Caring about someone or something requires that we believe in its value, but it also requires that we believe that what is valued can cease to be.

Life is fierce and difficult. There is no life we can live without being subject to grief, loss and heartbreak. Half of every conversation is mediated through disappearance. Thus, there is every reason to want to retreat from life, to carry torches that illuminate only our own view, to make enemies of life and of others, to hate what we cannot unde

Admitting is a good attitude. But don’t forget, it’s basically impossible to not get hurt in your relations with other people. When you enter into interpersonal relationships, it is inevitable that to a greater or lesser extent you will get hurt, and you will hurt someone, too. Adler says, “To get rid of one’s problems, all one can do is live in th

because the things that have the power to cause us the most pain are often the things we care about most deeply.