Nowadays everybody is so scared of life and of risk and of anything that comes from it, that we've developed brittle shells around ourselves which make us rather lonely beings.
— Iain McGilchrist, The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 20 [YouTube]
Theatwitter.comNowadays everybody is so scared of life and of risk and of anything that comes from it, that we've developed brittle shells around ourselves which make us rather lonely beings. — Iain McGilchrist, The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 20 [YouTube]
we are always under siege, and we are held there by our attempts to hold off the emptiness we intuit at the center of our lives.
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