This means that we can relinquish our claims only to the extent to which we overcome the whole search for glory and all that it entails.
However, unlike a tapeworm cure, in the process of coming back to ourselves every step counts.
―Neurosis and Human Growth, Karen Horney
For all practical purposes we take it for granted that in general the patient could not develop otherwise than she did; that in particular she could not help doing, feeling, thinking what she did do, feel, think. This viewpoint, however, is not shared by the patient. Her lofty disregard for all that means laws and necessities extends to herself too. The fact that, everything considered, her development could go only in certain directions is beneath her consideration. Whether some drive or attitude was conscious or unconscious does not matter. However insuperable the odds against which she had to struggle she should have met them with unfailing strength, courage, and equanimity. If she did not do so, it proves that she is no good.
―Neurosis and Human Growth, Karen Horney
1. See tech as a tool for work/tasks/accomodation.
2. Spend time outdoors daily, amongst green friends.
3. Move your body each day, dedication to your very own body.
4. Eat real food minimally, fruit for dessert, snackishness.
5. Choose a patron poet for daily reading.
6. Keep a notebook nearby, write stuff in it.
7. Tend to your teeth.
You do not need permission from anyone to take care of yourself.
No doom will befall you for acting on your own.
