Greeks even have a saying...

"to say something in less words, means that you are wise about it". 

POO aula 01

Leon Bloy

“When the devil cannot prevent the appearance of a noble and pure soul, he revenges himself by distorting the picture of this soul in the minds of others.”

pobreza x supérfluo

 Pobreza é não ter o que é supérfluo. Miséria é não ter o que é essencial para viver.

Force of Habit

You can trace every success (or failure) in your life back to a habit. What you do on a daily basis largely determines what you'll achieve in life.

if someone does something from force of habit, they do it without thinking because they have done it so often before.

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But do not make the mistake of thinking that it will go as soon

as you cease to fear it. Your nerves are still sensitized and

will take time to heal, just as a broken leg takes time.

However, as you improve and are no longer afraid of the

churning, and do not try to cure it by controlling it, and are

prepared to accept it and work with it present, you will

gradually become more interested in other things and will

gradually forget to notice whether it is there or not. This is

the way to recover. By true acceptance you break the fear-

adrenalin-fear cycle or, in other words, the churning-

adrenalin-churning cycle.



TRUE ACCEPTANCE: THE KEYSTONE TO RECOVERY

Of course the churning, itself a symptom of tension,

must inevitably come while so tensely awaited.
I tried to make him understand that he must be prepared

to let his stomach churn and to continue reading his paper

while it churned. He must try to loosen that tight hold on

himself, literally let his body sag into the chair and go

toward, not shrink from, any feeling his body brings him.
Then, freed from the stimulus of tension and anxiety,

his adrenalin-releasing nerves would gradually calm down and

the churning would automatically lessen and finally cease.



THE SYMPTOMS ARE ALWAYS A REFLECTION OF YOUR MOOD

This man was asked to do no more than change his mood

from apprehension to acceptance. The symptoms of this type of

illness are always a reflection of your mood. However, it is

well to remember that it may be some time before your body

reacts to the new mood of acceptance and that it may continue

for a while to reflect the tense, frightened mood of the

preceding weeks, months, or years. This is one reason why

nervous illness can be so bewildering and why this old man was

bewildered. He had begun to accept, but when the symptoms did

not disappear immediately, he quickly lost heart and became

apprehensive again, although trying to convince himself that he

was accepting.
It takes time for a body to establish acceptance as a

mood and for this eventually to bring peace, just as it took

time for fear to become established as continuous tension and

anxiety. That is why "letting time pass" is such an important

part of your treatment and why I emphasize it again and again.

Time is the answer. But there must be that background of true

acceptance while waiting for time pass.

Vocab 3

tensely flinch	flinCH	recuar tensamente
wrist	rist	pulso
too upset	ˌəpˈset	muito chateado
outflow	ˈoutˌflō	descarga
shrinking		contrair
further	ˈfərT͟Hər	mais
churning	ChərniNG	agitação
anxiety	aNGˈzī-itē	ang-zahy-i-tee
for the time being		por ora, por enquanto
widowhood	ˈwidōˌho͝od	viuvez
flatly	ˈflatlē	categoricamente
shun	Shən	evitar
shed	Shed	perder (peso)
bewilderment	bɪˈwɪl dər mənt	desorientação
outstretched		estendido, aberto
breakdown	ˈbrākˌdoun	colapso
workbench	ˈwərkˌbenCH	bancada
uneasy fluttering		vibração desconfortável
bore	bôr / bɔr,	perfuração
uneasy	ˌənˈēzē	inquieto
flutter	ˈflətər	vibração, bater asas
steadily		firmemente
flinch	flinCH	recuar
churning		agitação
frighten	ˈfrītn	assustar
shrinking		encolher
outflow	ˈoutˌflō	jorro, fluxo
floating past		flutuar adiante
its passing		sua passagem
regard		considerar
a (cat), ā (day), e(ə)r (hair), ä (father), är (arm), e (let), ē (see)
i(ə)r (here), i (pit), ī (by), ä (pot), ō (no), ô (caught), ôr (north)
ôr (force), oi (noise), o͝o (took), o͝or (tour), o͞o (soon), ou (out)
ə (cut), ər (word), ə (about), ə, i (rabbit), ər (butter), yo͞o (view)