If you can’t post editted photos of yourself in honor of your first ever mustache… then why have a blog.
on listening
Listening is manifest humility, there’s no me in it, it’s not about my feelings or reactive ideas; it’s about uploading the thoughts, feelings and ideas of someone else. It involves, first bringing yourself to believe that there’s a chance (however minute) that you don’t already know everything the other is bringing to the table. When you can do this, you’re confessing to the person you’re listening to, that their life is not merely a subset of your own – that you haven’t already dominated all modes of experience, evaluation and expression and that what they’ve been through, processed and come up with adds something… they matter, they’re valuable. Listening is a lot like love – and maybe one of its truest expressions. I love you too.
Sartre maintained that the concepts of authenticity and individuality have to be earned - not learned. We need to experience death to consciousness in order to wake ourselves up to what is really important; the authentic in our lives, which is life experience - not knowledge.
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.
Soren Kierkegaard
During the first period of a man’s life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. - Soren Kierkegaard
more important than the wearing is the walking. un-shoe and continue.
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?
I believe many of my earliest memories were formed in my mind by the continual story-telling of my parents: peanut butter on the wall story, my first plane ride story. One original I’m sure of was when I was four, I remember playing with my cousin Nathan amongst red-ants on a vacation in Florida. There was an old guy there too, probably my Grandfather; being quite small at the time, I mainly remember the pant legs and shoes as bearing witness to our would be demise.
free will (2)
some good thoughts from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on free will - I’ll need to come back to it at some point and read the whole thing.
“But the significance of free will is not exhausted by its connection to moral responsibility. Free will also appears to be a condition on desert for one’s accomplishments (why sustained effort and creative work are praiseworthy); on the autonomy and dignity of persons; and on the value we accord to love and friendship.”
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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Soren Kierkegaard
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