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The psychologist D.W. Winnicott often drew a distinction between the “authentic self” and the “false self.” Without realizing it, he said, we look to other people to scaffold our sense of who we are. It’s they who perform the construction of our identity. When we’re alone — when their judgments and preferences are no longer there to shape our self-concept — it tends to break down. That can be terrifying. But it can also be a gift. Because when the false self falls away, it leaves space for you to build a more authentic self.

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Solitude 1 01

Being alone “implies the capacity to generate meaningful and valuable experiences in the internal world, for if one wishes to be when alone and not merely to wither or starve, one must be able to generate and possess some of the vital stuff of being.”

You’re no longer looking to other people for their attention or approval.

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David Byrne 1998

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You’ve got sadness in you, I’ve got sadness in me – and my works of art are places where the two sadnesses can meet, and therefore both of us need to feel less sad.

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Silence Yourself

The world used to be silent, now it has too many voices and the noise is a constant distraction. They multiply, intensify, they will divert your attention to what’s convenient and forget to tell you about yourself.

We live in an age of many stimulations. If you are focused you are harder to reach. If you are distracted you are available. You are distracted, you are available, you want flattery, always looking to where it's at. You want to take part in everything and everything to be a part of you. Your head is spinning faster at the end of your spine until you have no face at all. And yet if the world would shut up even for a while, perhaps we would start hearing the distant rhythm of an angry young tune and recompose ourselves. Perhaps, having deconstructed everything, we should be thinking about putting everything back together.

Silence yourself.

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Music

Music … is not imitative, but if I may hazard the expression, merely suggestive. But, whatever we may call it, this I will venture to say, – that in instrumental Music, expressively performed, the very indecision itself of the expression, leaving the hearer to the free operation of his emotion upon his fancy, and as it were, to the free choice of such ideas are, to him, most adapted to react upon and heighten the emotion which occasioned them, produces a pleasure, which nobody, I believe, who is able to feel it, will deny to be one of the most delicious that Music is capable of affording.

Thomas Twining