Through reading, and my own personal journey as I attempted to rediscover my sane self, I realised that for the past 14 years since the birth of my daughter, my coping strategy was based upon disembodiment, separating my traumatised perineum from my personal self.
Anyway, I knew I would never wear that dress again, but just as I was warming up the Marie Kondo pep-talk-to-self, I realised this too-short dress was a perfect length for a skirt.
The citizen is not simply a the passive recipient of rights, but rather an active self-realising being.
I had picked up this book years before – [Laing's] The Divided Self – and I realised that somebody really understood; it was amazing.
The extent to which the ideal self can be realised by the time you meet is what governs the acceptability of the lie.
The decision making process alone teaches patience, resilience, attention to micro and macro detail, consequential responsibility for decisions made and put into practise as well as the reality of realised self expression, possibly for the first time.
Instead of pummelling a single issue to death with sketch-like variations on a theme, the film manages to take on a wide range of themes and subjects, including the difficulty of self-sufficiency, realising when you want children, accepting the emotional baggage of others, sex as a cure for loneliness, and the fact that even our closest friends may remain entirely unknowable to us.
Being completely self-interested, I realised, was not just morally dubious but economically inefficient.
With new self-confidence he realised that art could help him build a life out of prison, and John is now a professional artist.
After much self-denial, he realised he had developed feelings for the daughter of his ex-wife's sister.
