#thomas lewis

[syaairin]

Since everyone is doing their slashfic oc's voice claims- IT'S MY TURN 🫡

Aaron and Thomas voice claim!!

[dumpster-r4ccoon]

Booo I'm back from the dead

@unacalacamas @syaairin

Time to disappear again

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Art: Włodzimierz Kukliński, Funfair

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We may think that an ending is our failure, but that identification with the process - taking most of the credit for it - oddly, may be a defense against the opus.

- Thomas Moore, Soul Mates: Honoring the Mysteries of Love and Relationship (Soulful Endings).

A person cannot direct his emotional life in the way he bids his motor system to reach for a cup. He cannot will himself to want the right thing, or to love the right person, or to be happy after a disappointment, or even to be happy in happy times. People lack this capacity not through a deficiency of discipline but because the jurisdiction of will is limited to the latest brain and to those functions within its purview. Emotional life can be influenced, but it cannot be commanded. Our society's love affair with mechanical devices that respond at a button-touch ill prepares us to deal with the unruly organic mind that dwells within. Anything that does not comply must be broken or poorly designed, people now suppose, including their hearts.

- Kits, Cats, Sacks, and Uncertainty: How the Brain's Basic Structure Posts Problems for Love. In A General Theory of Love, by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon (Random House 2000), p. 33.

Do we delude ourselves in thinking that we possess and control our own psyches, and is what science calls the "psyche" not just a question-mark arbitrarily confined within the skull, but rather a door that opens upon the human world from a world beyond, allowing unknown and mysterious powers to act upon man and carry him on the wings of the night to a more than personal destiny? It even seems as if the love-episode had served as a mere release, or had been unconsciously arranged for a definite purpose, and as if the personal experience were only a prelude to the all-important "divine comedy."

- C.G. Jung, Psychology and Literature, CW 15: Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature, par. 148.

[Analytical Psychology: Theory and Practice]

[nappynewz]

‘I Love My Skin!’ Why Black Parents Are Turning to Afrocentric Schools

‘I Love My Skin!’ Why Black Parents Are Turning to Afrocentric Schools

While New York City schools are deeply segregated, some black families are choosing an alternative to integration.

Thomas Lewis, a martial arts instructor, teaches a lesson at Little Sun People. The school has a new theme each month; in November, students studied human bodies with the help of a black pediatrician.CreditCreditDemetrius Freeman for The New York Times

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[eelhound]

Science is an inherent contradiction — systematic wonder — applied to the natural world. In its mundane form, the methodical instinct prevails and the result, an orderly procession of papers, advances the perimeter of knowledge, step by laborious step. Great scientific minds partake of that daily discipline and can also suspend it, yielding to the sheer love of allowing the mental engine to spin free.  And then Einstein imagines himself riding a light beam, Kekule formulates the structure of benzene in a dream, and Fleming’s eye travels past the annoying mold on his glassware to the clear ring surrounding it — a lucid halo in a dish otherwise opaque with bacteria — and penicillin is born. Who knows how many scientific revolutions have been missed because their potential inaugurators disregarded the whimsical, the incidental, the inconvenient inside the laboratory?

Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon, from A General Theory of Love

[thehungergames-cofradiathg]

Tributos del Distrito 12 seleccionados para los 103º Juegos del Hambre

Thomas Lewis

Teresa Franklin (@_TessaFranklin)

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GRRR I HATE THEM CHAT

Aaron and Thomas = @syaairin

Sally and Randy = Me

+ A lil doodle I made during class

[stonefoxkneesocks]

In a relationship, one mind revises another; one heart changes its partner. This astounding legacy of our combined status as mammals and neural beings is limbic revision: the power to remodel the emotional parts of the people we love, as our Attractors activate certain limbic pathways, and the brain’s inexorable memory mechanism reinforces them. Who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love.

A General Theory of Love, Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, Richard Lannon