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(from Algernon Blackwood’s A Prisoner In Fairyland, pages 124-125):
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This has led me to recognize that allowing myself to digest others' journals, forums, and websites that anger me, amuse me in a cynical way, depress me--is tantamount to self-harm.
Staying informed on the changing of subjects important to me weren't, and aren't, worth becoming emotionally tortured over. Remaining true to myself and to others, and discussing nature and what's integral to me with those who care, empathize, or sympathize, is all that matters. It's not the changing--viewed as progression by some, degression by some, and something altogether new and without history to some--that's important or integral to me; it's the subject, which often gets muddled or lost in translation, in terminology, in sigils and flashy clothing, in pricey jewelry and misleading books, in gurus who mean well but lose themselves in the complex web of their own hype. Change is not bad or good. Change is, ironically, a constant. If the subject is changing constantly with no stable core, the subject looses cohesion and becomes something it never was.
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This has led me to recognize that allowing myself to digest others' journals, forums, and websites that anger me, amuse me in a cynical way, depress me--is tantamount to self-harm.
Staying informed on the changing of subjects important to me weren't, and aren't, worth becoming emotionally tortured over. Remaining true to myself and to others, and discussing nature and what's integral to me with those who care, empathize, or sympathize, is all that matters. It's not the changing--viewed as progression by some, degression by some, and something altogether new and without history to some--that's important or integral to me; it's the subject, which often gets muddled or lost in translation, in terminology, in sigils and flashy clothing, in pricey jewelry and misleading books, in gurus who mean well but lose themselves in the complex web of their own hype. Change is not bad or good. Change is, ironically, a constant. If the subject is changing constantly with no stable core, the subject looses cohesion and becomes something it never was.
