[오늘의 한문장] The Laws of Human Nature

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how---Friedrich Nietzsche (p. 370)

[오늘의 한문장] The Laws of Human Nature

"All too many people have seen power and love as polar opposites... two fulfill each other. Power without love is reckless, and love without power is sentimental." (p. 366)

[오늘의 한문장] The Laws of Human Nature

Your task is to let go of the rigidity that takes hold of you as you overidentify with the expected gender role. Power lies in exploring that middle range between the masculine and the feminine, in playing against people’s expectations. Return to the harder or softer sides of your character that you have lost or repressed. (p. 332)

it is worth cultivating momen...

it is worth cultivating moments in life in which we feel immense satisfaction and happiness divorced from our own success or achievements. This happens commonly when we find ourselves in a beautiful landscape-the mountains, the sea, a forest. We do not feel the prying, comparing eyes of others, the need to have more attention or to assert ourselves. We are simply in awe of what we see, and it is intensely therapeutic. This can also occur when we contemplate the immensity of the universe, the uncanny set of circumstancesthat had to come together for us to be born, the vast reaches of time before usand after us. These are sublime moments, and as far removed from the pettinesand poisons of envy as possible. (p. 290)

you can channel this darker e...

you can channel this darker energy into productive activity. You can turn your neediness and vulnerability into empathy. You can channel your aggressive impulses into worthwhile causes and into your work. You can admit your ambitions, your desires for power, and not act so guiltily and stealthily. You can monitor your suspicious tendencies and the projection of your own negative emotions onto others.