Swaddle in our favorites, we missed out on what was in our peripheral vision.
Children make theories when they are confused or anxious.
You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.
Over time, we transform a collection of parts into a comprehension of wholes.
When people turn other people into selfobjects, they are trying to turn a person into a kind of spare part.
We miss out on necessary conversations when we divide our attention between the people we’re with and the world on our phones. Or when we go to our phones instead of claiming a quiet moment for ourselves.
The journal is written to everyone and thus to no one.
Whenever one has time to write, edit, and delete, there is room for performance.
It used to be that we imagined our mobile phones were there so that we could talk to each other. Now we want our mobile phones to talk to us.
I miss those days even though I wasn’t alive.
Eric Erikson writes that in their search for identity, adolescents need a place of stillness, a place to gather themselves.
He makes an effort to be more spontaneous on Facebook.
Discovering an inner history requires listening – and often not to the first story told.
Face-to-face with a computer, people reflected on who they were in the mirror of the machine.
I said that we use digital “passbacks” to placate young children who say they are bored. We are not teaching them that boredom can be recognized as your imagination calling you. Of.
One of the emotional affordances of digital communication is that one can always hide behind deliberated nonchalance.
A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments.
Anthropologist Victor Turner writes that we are most free to explore identity in places outside of our normal routines, places that are in some way “betwixt and between.” Turner calls them liminal, from the Latin word for “threshold.
Laboratory research suggests that how we look and act in the virtual affect our behavior in the real.
Connectivity becomes a craving.