On counterwill.
Or ‘being contrary’ (like Mary) 🤨

A thread 🧵

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#Psychology #HumanNature #Education #Humanity #Hierarchy #Counterwill

« “What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.” That was indeed a great benefit; such a person can never be alone. You may be sure that such a man is a friend to all mankind. »

— Seneca the Younger

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/747503674538033152/what-progress-you-ask-have-i-made-i-have-begun

#quotes #Seneca #progress #HumanNature #humanity

« There is a destiny that makes us brothers:
None goes his way alone:
All that we send into the lives of others
Comes back onto our own.

I care not what his temples or his creeds,
One thing holds firm and fast
That into his fateful heap of days and deeds
The soul of man is cast. »

― Edwin Markham

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/739171663628910592/there-is-a-destiny-that-makes-us-brothers-none

#quotes #EdwinMarkham #oneness #interbeing #humanity #HumanNature #poetry

« Progress is the law of life: man is not Man as yet. »

― Robert Browning

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/747326626318188544/progress-is-the-law-of-life-man-is-not-man-as

#quotes #RobertBrowning #progress #maturation #HumanNature #life #mankind

« Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things which exist; observe too the continuous spinning of the thread and the contexture of the web. »

— Marcus Aurelius

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/738990672631169024/constantly-regard-the-universe-as-one-living

#quotes #MarcusAurelius #oneness #interbeing #HumanNature

« Hope does not arise by putting our fellow man down; it is found by lifting others up. »

— Barack Obama

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/738080510548541440/hope-does-not-arise-by-putting-our-fellow-man

#quotes #BarackObama #hope #solidarity #humanity #HumanNature #interbeing

« The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart. »

— Mencius

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/746049277311254528/the-great-man-is-he-who-does-not-lose-his-childs

#quotes #Mencius #greatness #InnerChild #HumanNature #humanity

« He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others. »

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#quotes #RalphWaldoEmerson #greatness #nature #HumanNature

« Don’t let words limit the possibilities of life. »

— Alan Watts

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#quotes #AlanWatts #limitations #possibilities #life #HumanNature #MapVsTerritory #FallacyOfReason

« The human being resembles a tree; its root is a covenant with God: that root must be cherished with all one's might. »

― Rumi

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/770148953053429760/the-human-being-resembles-a-tree-its-root-is-a

#quotes #Rumi #Mevlana #JalaluddinRumi #trees #roots #HumanNature #covenant #DivineIntelligence #love

Are people naturally selfish and lazy?

Or are we built to be collaborative, and self-motivated?

A thread on human nature.

https://mas.to/@KatyElphinstone/113538898680086015

#HumanNature #Behaviorism

« I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. »

— Neil Armstrong

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/734184845922680832/i-think-were-going-to-the-moon-because-its-in

#quotes #NeilArmstrong #moon #HumanNature #challenges

« If a man any ways doubt whether what he is going to do to another man be agreeable to the law of nature, then let him suppose himself to be in that other man’s room. »

— John Wise

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/741173291779342336/if-a-man-any-ways-doubt-whether-what-he-is-going

#quotes #JohnWise #interbeing #reciprocity #GoldenRule #HumanNature #humanity