How the creator of Gestalt Therapy classified different types of human communication:
a) Chicken Shit: small talk, exchange of cliches.
b) Bullshit: rationalization, explanatoriness, talk for talk’s sake.
c) Elephant Shit: high level discussions on religion, Gestalt Therapy,
existential philosophy, etc.”
Fritz Perls, In and out of the garbage pail
To be in hell is to drift;
to be in heaven is to steer.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
What gets remembered
depends on who is in the room
doing the remembering.
Betty Reid Soskin, US National Park Service Ranger
who turned 100 on September 21, 2021
At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed,
tell yourself: “I have to go to work — as a human being.
What do I have to complain of,
if I’m going to do what I was born for —
the things I was brought into the world to do?
Or is this what I was created for?
To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations