Winnie Lim

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January 10, 2023

should we follow our natural inclinations?

Was reading The Bell Jar yesterday and it made me wonder why were they injecting insulin into the protagonist at the asylum – she wasn’t diabetic and it was supposed to be treatment…

tagged: book, curiosity, insulin, poetry, poets, prose, reading, self, Sylvia Plath, talent, Ted Hughes, writers, writing
November 16, 2022

storing up spirit in a chain of notes

Came across this quote while reading “Born to run“: …and it immediately reminded me of this note I wrote on storing vs mortgaging energy. I like noticing obscure synchronicities in the media…

tagged: aliveness, book, books, born to run, bundle, chain of content, chain of notes, concept, consciousness, energy, Herb Elliott, human spirit, interlinking, meta, notes, quote, quotes, spirit, storing energy, website
September 17, 2022

storing vs mortgaging energy

I was writing in my journal this morning on the concept of storing energy – something I’d learnt from reading Robert A Johnson‘s biography – so I thought I’ll document and share…

tagged: book, endurance, energy, Jungian therapy, psychological energy, storing energy, suffering
September 15, 2022

on being the odd one out

Because of my views on many issues – covid, mortality, purpose, etc – differ from the mainstream, I spend a lot of time and energy wondering if I am insane. I read…

tagged: aloneness, normality, oddness, philosophers, philosophy, sanity, transcendence, twitter, worldview