6 essays where Zora Neale Hurston sits on the council. Zora weighs in on comparison, flow, selfishness. Read what Zora would tell you.
Diogenes says you are measuring with borrowed rulers. Csikszentmihalyi says comparison kills flow. Hurston says it is your life to sharpen. Three thinkers who disagree on how.
Three thinkers on wanting things for yourself. Russell says self-absorption is where misery begins. Hurston says claiming what you want is not indulgence. Spinoza says first understand the wanting.
Three thinkers on authenticity. Havel calls it living within the lie. Hurston says name the audience. Douglass asks which parts of this life you actually chose.
Three thinkers on identity and change over time. Wittgenstein says the earlier self spoke a different language. Hurston says they carried you here. Aristotle asks if the change represents growth.
Three thinkers on staying out of fear. Bowlby says the need is real. Pascal says you haven't tried. Hurston asks if you know who you are without them.
Three thinkers on cutting off family. Winnicott says the wound is old. Hurston says walk away whole. Girard says the pattern will follow you if you do not see it.
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