Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
Interpretation
Jealousy stems from imagined scenarios where someone possesses what we think is rightfully ours.
This quote suggests that jealousy is not a reflection of reality but rather an illusion or fantasy that arises when we believe someone else has something that we should have or desire. It points to the absurdity of these comparisons, urging us to recognize that such feelings are often rooted in our own insecurities and perceptions rather than objective truths.
In practice
In a discussion about the nature of jealousy, this quote illustrates how our perceptions can distort reality.
If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.
I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.
Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.
I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.
Each person has a literature inside them.
I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they have to be more creative than they would have imagined in order to communicate. It's the very moment that they have to dig deeper than the surface to find words, and at the same time, it's a moment when they want to communicate very badly. They're digging deep and projecting out at the same time.
I have always tried to avoid talking to pretty girls, because pretty girls have a vicious effect on me in which every part of my brain is shut down except for the part that says unbelievably stupid things and the part that is aware that I am saying unbelievably stupid things.
I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.
Just because somebody wants to be alone sometimes, it doesn't mean they don't love you.
Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,' that wasn't necessarily true in the N.F.L.
Just as love blinds us to imperfections in others, it magnifies those we see in ourselves. But if this is true, then the opposite must also be the case. We can take comfort in the fact that our faults will be invisible to those who love us. The success or failure of any relationship depends not just on how we feel about each other, but on how we make each other feel about ourselves.
According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege.
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