Depression and pure love

To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise (Dostoevsky)

Suffering demands a fix. We lie to ourselves

Every act you have performed to alleviate suffering in the world amounts to sacrificing something of yourself.

Pressure on ourselves. Ego

Our egos are conditioned to pin down people, including our very own selves.

Soul. Ego. Communal Paradox (Rohr, Chittister, Merton)

My notions of ego and soul, and 3 influential sources

We harden our shells… Like turtles, not cockroaches

Turtles cannot live without carrying their living, scarred shells…