Maintenance Phase Quotes

Since I am writing a book about depression, I am often asked in social situations to describe my own experiences, and I usually end by saying that I am on medication. “Still?” people ask. “But you seem fine!” To which I invariably reply that I seem fine because I am fine, and that I am fine in part because of medication. “So how long do you expect to go on taking this stuff?” people ask. When I say that I will be on medication indefinitely, people who have dealt calmly and sympathetically with the news of suicide attempts, catatonia, missed years of work, significant loss of body weight, and so on stare at me with alarm. “But it’s really bad to be on medicine that way,” they say. “Surely now you are strong enough to be able to phase out some of these drugs!” If you say to them that this is like phasing the carburetor out of your car or the buttresses out of Notre Dame, they laugh. “So maybe you’ll stay on a really low maintenance dose?” They ask. You explain that the level of medication you take was chosen because it normalizes the systems that can go haywire, and that a low dose of medication would be like removing half of your carburetor. You add that you have experienced almost no side effects from the medication you are taking, and that there is no evidence of negative effects of long-term medication. You say that you really don’t want to get sick again. But wellness is still, in this area, associated not with achieving control of your problem, but with discontinuation of medication. “Well, I sure hope you get off it sometime soon,” they say.

Cultivating a willingness to succeed despite any and all circumstances is the most important variable of the reengagement equation. Your willingness to succeed builds self-esteem. It broadens your concept of your own capability, yet it is the first thing we lose touch with when things go bad. After that, giving up often feels like the sanest option, and maybe it is, but know that quitting chips away at your self-worth and always requires some level of mental rehab. Even if what forces you to quit is an injury or something else beyond your control, you will still have to bounce back from the experience mentally. A successful mission seldom requires any emotional maintenance. In order to execute on your willingness to succeed, you will need to be able to perform without purpose. You’ve heard of purpose, that magical missing ingredient crucial to landing a fulfilling career and building a happy life. What if I told you the importance of finding your purpose was overblown? What if there never was any such thing as your good friend purpose? What if it doesn’t matter what the fuck you do with your time here? What if it’s all arbitrary and life doesn’t give a flying fuck if you want to be happy? What then? All I know is this: I am David Fucking Goggins. I exist; therefore, I complete what I start. I take pride in my effort and in my performance in all phases of life. Just because I am here! If I’m lost, I will find myself. As long as I’m on planet Earth, I will not half-ass it. Anywhere I lack, I will improve because I exist and I am willing.

Cette séparation alchimique, si dangereuse que les philophes hermétiques n’en parlaient qu’à mots couverts, si ardue que de longues vies s’étaient usées en vain à l’obtenir, il l’avait confondue jadis avec une rébellion facile. Puis, rejetant ce fatras de rêvasseries aussi antiques que l’illusion humaine, ne retenant de ses maîtres alchimistes que quelques recettes pragmatiques, il avait choisi de dissoudre et de coaguler la matière dans le sens d’une expérimentation faite avec le corps des choses. Maintenant, les deux branches de la parabole se rejoignaient ; la mors philosophica, s’était accomplie : l’opérateur brûlé par les acides de la recherche était à la fois sujet et objet, alambic fragile et, au fond du réceptacle, précipité noir. L’expérience qu’on avait cru pouvoir confiner à l’officine s’était étendue à tout. S’en suivait-il que les phases subséquentes de l’aventure alchimique fussent autre chose que des songes, et qu’un jour il connaîtrait aussi la pureté ascétique de l’ Œuvre au Blanc, puis le triomphe de l’esprit et des sens qui caractérise l’ Œuvre au Rouge ? Du fond de la lézarde naissait une Chimère. Il disait Oui par audace, comme autrefois par audace il avait dit Non. Il s’arrêtait soudain, tirant violemment sur ses propres rênes. La première phase de l’Œuvre avait demandé toute sa vie. Le temps et les forces manquaient pour aller plus loin, à supposer qu’il y eût une route, et que par cette route un homme pût passer. Ou ce pourrissement des idées, cette mort des instincts, ce broiement des formes preque insupportables à la nature humaine seraient rapidement suivis par la mort véritable, et il serait curieux de voir par quelle voie, ou l’esprit revenu des domaines du vertige reprendrait ses routines habituelles, muni seulement de facultés plus libres et comme nettoyées. Il serait beau d’en voir les effets.

Nothing in life stands still. Movement and change are the very essence of life and yet our normal tendency is to believe that everything is fixed and solid. We wish to believe that all we see is real and secure, even though our ordinary experience tells us that nothing remains unchanged and nothing lasts forever. On the contrary, everything in the world around us is constantly falling apart and requires a great deal of maintenance on our part if we wish to hold it together. What happens during this process of change is the great mystery revealed in symbolic form within this book. The state called here the "transitional phase" (Tibetan: "bardo") is the actual moment of change, occurring at the end of one phase and the beginning of the next. It is the state of flux itself, the only state that can really be called "real." It is a condition of great power and potential within which anything could happen. It is the moment between moments. It may seem to span an entire lifetime, like the moment between being born and dying, or it may be imperceptibly short and fleeting, like the moment between one thought and the next. Whatever its duration, however, it is a moment of great opportunity for those who perceive it. Anyone who can do this is called a yogin. Such a person has the power of destiny in their hands. He or she has no need of a priest to guide him towards the clear light of truth, for he sees already the clear light of truth in the intermediate phases that occur between all other states. Refusing to become trapped in the false belief that all about him is fixed and solid, the yogin moves with calm and graceful ease through life, confident that changes are now under his own direction. He becomes the master of change instead of its slave.....Similarly, between any encounter and one's reaction to it, there is an intermediate space that offers choice to those who can see it. One is not obliged to react on the basis of habit or prejudice. The opportunity for a fresh approach is always there in the intermediate state for those who have learned to recognize it. Such recognition is the essential message of this ancient and profound book.

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Once a country is included on the “counterinsurgency” list, or any other such category, a move is made to develop a CIA echelon, usually within the structure of whatever U.S. military organization exists there at the time. Then the CIA operation begins Phase I by proposing the introduction of some rather conventional aircraft. No developing country can resist such an offer, and this serves to create a base of operations, usually in a remote and potentially hostile area. While the aircraft program is getting started the Agency will set up a high frequency radio network, using radios positioned in villages throughout the host country. The local inhabitants are told that these radios will provide a warning of guerrilla activity. Phase II of such a project calls for the introduction of medium transport type aircraft that meet anti-guerrilla warfare support requirements. The crew training program continues, and every effort is made to develop an in-house maintenance capability. As the level of this activity increases, more and more Americans are brought in, ostensibly as instructors and advisers; at this phase many of the Americans are Army Special Forces personnel who begin civic action programs. The country is sold the idea that it is the Army in most developing nations that is the usual stabilizing influence and that it is the Army that can be trusted. This is the American doctrine; promoting the same idea, but in other words, it is a near paraphrase of the words of Chairman Mao. In the final phase of this effort, light transports and liaison type aircraft are introduced to be used for border surveillance, landing in remote areas, and for resupplying small groups of anti-guerrilla warfare troops who are operating away from fixed bases. These small specialized aircraft are usually augmented by helicopters. When the plan has developed this far, efforts are made to spread the program throughout the frontier area of the country. Villagers are encouraged to clear off small runways or helicopter landing pads, and more warning network radios are brought into remote areas. While this work is continuing, the government is told that these activities will develop their own military capability and that there will be a bonus economic benefit from such development, each complementing the other. It also makes the central government able to contact areas in which it may never have been able to operate before, and it will serve as a tripwire warning system for any real guerrilla activities that may arise in the area. There is no question that this whole political economic social program sounds very nice, and most host governments have taken the bait eagerly. What they do not realize, and in many cases what most of the U.S. Government does not realize, is that this is a CIA program, and it exists to develop intelligence. If it stopped there, it might be acceptable but intelligence serves as its own propellant, and before long the agents working on this type of project see, or perhaps are a factor in creating, internal dissension.

That is the end of the fun phase of all addictions: maintenance.

Nous avons déjà parlé de la notion temporelle propre à chaque saison, l'été étant l'époque où il ne faut plus attendre, quand la récolte est mûre, pour la recueillir. J'ai ainsi connu des étés bretons où les pluies risquaient de gâcher le travail de toute une année; les Recteurs, en chaire, autorisaient exceptionnellement le travail le dimanche. Cette période de récolte n'est pas une phase tranquille où il suffit de contempler les champs de blé mûr, mais une période de travail impératif pour mettre la récolte à l'abri à temps. Les cultivateurs de l'époque -- comme maintenant -- n'avaient pas toujours leur temps normal de sommeil; l'été, quand il fallait suivre les battages de ferme en ferme, les paysans finissaient à la nuit pour reprendre à l'aube dans la ferme suivante, ce qui ne les empêchait pas, d'ailleurs, d'aller au bal le samedi et d'y gagner une nouvelle nuit blanche. La récolte n'attends pas, « quand le vin est tiré, il faut le boire » ; si le fruit du travail psychologique n'est pas engrangé en temps voulu, il risque d'être perdu. Psychologiquement, on peut dire que si le sujet ne prends pas conscience de certains progrès, de certains évolutions, aux moments où ceux-ci se présentent, ils risquent d'être perdus et de repartir dans l'inconscient. Il faudra un nouveau cycle pour retrouver à nouveau les solutions négligées. Il est nécessaire de reconnaître que les choses ont changé. Ainsi, en faisant avec quelqu'un le bilan d'une année d'entretiens et en se reportant aux problèmes qui se posaient un an plus tôt, il est possible de mesurer le chemin parcouru, de s'apercevoir que des problèmes, cruciaux alors, sont pasés au second plan et ont été résolus. Il est permis d'espérer que les nouvelles questions qui se posent trouveront elles aussi leurs réponses. Ainsi, le sujet n'a pas l'impression de nager continuellement dans la même problématique, comme s'il tournait en rond, et pourra même découvrir que si certains questions reviennent à l'ordre du jour, elles le font selon un mouvement spirale qui ne pose plus de problèmes de la même façon que l'année précédente. C'est la prise de conscience du chemin parcouru hier qui peut donner le courage d'en entreprendre un nouveau demain.

The times are demanding more of us right now. There are periods in history in which this happens. The Vedic tradition teaches that life works to a never-ending cycle of creation, maintenance and destruction. We’re born, we live, we die, then we are reborn in some form or other, and on we go. Physics, biology, quantum mechanics . . . they work to the same truth. You could say we’ve been in a maintenance phase for decades, if not centuries. But now things have gotten destructive, as they have before, and we need to step up from our comfortable lull – our acedia – go to our edge and serve. It’s in such times (of war, famine, plague, despotic rule) that religion and spirituality tend to lead us in this stepping up, reminding us of the noble worth of the hard bits – the sacrifice, the service, the radical faith. The beautiful questions to ask, then: How are we going to be of service? What are we willing to sacrifice to live the teachings of Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, Gaia, The Universe – to save ourselves, and the world?

The maintenance of class rule depends upon the condition that its victims believe in its necessity. Awareness of its transitory character itself becomes a cause of its overthrow.

One of the underpinnings of this assumption is the popular truism that today's teenagers and younger children are all now harmoniously inhabiting the incluse and seamless intelligibility of their technological worlds. This generational characterization supposedly confirms that, within another few decades or less, a transitional phase will have ended and there will be billions of individuals with a similar level of technological competences and basic intellectual assumptions. With a new paradigm fully in place, there will be innovation, but in this scenario it will occurwithin the stable and endring conceptual and funcitonal parameters of this "digital" epoch. However, the very different actuality of our time is the calculated maintenance of an ongoing state of transition. There never will be a "catching up" on either a social or individual basis in relation to continually changing technological requirements. For the vast majority o f people our perceptual and cognitive relationship to communication and information technology will continue to be estranged and disempowered because of the velocity wat which new products emerge and at which arbitrary reconfigurations of entire systems take place. This intensified rhythm precludes the possibility of becoming familiar with any given arrangement. Certain cultural theorists insist that such condition can easily be the basis for neutralizing institutional power, but actual evidence supporting this view is non-existent.

The best solution is to put a dog bed in your living space, a comfy spot to rest that’s all her own. During the initial house-training phase, though, she should spend the night in a crate in your bedroom. There’s a mind-boggling selection of doggy beds on the market, so take your time choosing the one that’s right for you and your pooch. As in the case of real estate, location counts most when it comes to a dog bed. If your pup’s sleeping accommodation is on carpet or hardwood, you won’t need a lot of padding in the bed, but if it’s on concrete, linoleum or tile, you’ll need an adequate barrier against cold and moisture between the floor and the bottom of the bed. If your pooch sleeps in the basement or some other area where the temperature will be dipping below 60°F (about 16°C), consider a slightly elevated or well-insulated bed. Look for low-maintenance beds that are large enough to allow for a six-inch (fifteen-centimetre) buffer around your pup. And feel free to buy a bed large enough for your pup once he’s full grown. Look for materials that can be washed regularly.

The transition from the fed state to the fasted state occurs in several stages:3 1.Feeding: During meals, insulin levels are raised. This allows glucose uptake by tissues such as the muscle or brain for direct use as energy. Excess glucose is stored as glycogen in the liver. 2.The post-absorptive phase (six to twenty-four hours after fasting starts): Insulin levels begin to fall. The breakdown of glycogen releases glucose for energy. Glycogen stores last for roughly twenty-four hours. 3.Gluconeogenesis (twenty-four hours to two days): The liver manufactures new glucose from amino acids and glycerol. In non-diabetic persons, glucose levels fall but stay within the normal range. 4.Ketosis (one to three days after fasting starts): The storage form of fat, triglycerides, is broken into the glycerol backbone and three fatty acid chains. Glycerol is used for gluconeogenesis. Fatty acids may be used directly for energy by many tissues in the body, but not the brain. Ketone bodies, capable of crossing the blood-brain barrier, are produced from fatty acids for use by the brain. Ketones can supply up to 75 percent of the energy used by the brain.4 The two major types of ketones produced are beta hydroxybutyrate and acetoacetate, which can increase more than seventy-fold during fasting.5 5.Protein conservation phase (after five days): High levels of growth hormone maintain muscle mass and lean tissues. The energy for maintenance of basal metabolism is almost entirely met by the use of free fatty acids and ketones. Increased norepinephrine (adrenalin) levels prevent the decrease in metabolic rate.

You could say we’ve been in a maintenance phase for decades, if not centuries. But now things have gotten destructive, as they have before, and we need to step up from our comfortable lull – our acedia – go to our edge and serve.

1. For Strength Gain and Muscle Mass Detailed Dosage: Start with a loading phase of 20g per day, divided into 4 doses of 5g, for 5-7 days, followed by a maintenance phase of 5-10g daily. Specific Benefits: This approach aims to saturate the muscles with creatine, maximizing the muscle's capacity to regenerate ATP during intense exercises, resulting in greater strength and endurance during high-intensity training, and promoting greater muscle growth due to increased training capacity and potential hyperhydration of muscle cells.