Psychology

On Escaping From the News

Homepage, Philosophy, Psychology13 hours ago5KViews 1Like 0Comments

If we analyze the matter, we will discover that current affairs in different parts of the world have no effect on our everyday life. Whether we read the news today or not, nothing will change in our daily routine. Nothing will change in our real life.

Quaternities

Practical Philosophy, PsychologyMarch 4, 20254KViews 40Likes 0Comments

Wherever we look, we discover that the magic number four reigns supreme. In philosophy, religion, psychology, music, and many other fields, we find that the central concepts with which we organize our world, our understanding of the world, and our place in it have their roots in a quaternity. In physics, chemistry, and biology we…

Lessons from a Stray Dog

Philosophy, Practical Philosophy, Psychology, WhimsicalFebruary 23, 20255KViews 0Likes 0Comments

An unexpected friendship with a stray dog leads to valuable life lessons of love, loyalty, and independence.

The Little Things

Homepage, Philosophy, Practical Philosophy, PsychologyFebruary 18, 20255KViews 0Likes 0Comments

The little things in one’s behavior are more important than the big ones. Not “equally important,” as many would easily agree to. But more. It took me years to understand why. I was searching for a quality inherent in the little things, but as it turns out, it is a quality that is absent that makes…

Gone Forever. Gone.

Homepage, Philosophy, Practical Philosophy, PsychologyFebruary 3, 20255KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Death is not only what happens with the arrival of the Grim Reaper. Death permeates our life through these permanent ruptures with our fellow humans. Dying before dying – this is the crux here.

In the Beginning Is the Word

Homepage, Philosophy, PsychologyJanuary 20, 20255KViews 0Likes 0Comments

In the beginning there is always a word. A literal word, which, written or uttered, springs forth a new world, a new universe, a new Creation.

The Uniqueness of Man

Homepage, Philosophy, PsychologyNovember 29, 20245KViews 0Likes 0Comments

You are a unique expression of the Creation. A unique convergence of circumstance. You are one of the latest productions of the universe.

Reconnecting with My Primal Roots

Homepage, Philosophy, PsychologySeptember 26, 20245KViews 5Likes 0Comments

Telegram from the Solomon Islands I’M STILL ALIVE stop LIFE AT 9 RICHTER A DAY stop NOTHING REMAINS STANDING HERE stop EVERYTHING COLLAPSES IN THE STONE AGE stop ONLY TO BE REBUILT FROM STONE stop Malaita Island, Solomon Islands, Kwaio tribe (2007) I sit in a simple hut with the parents. Outside it is pouring rain. Through the hut’s small entrance, which is more like a window…

In Abundance

Homepage, Philosophy, PsychologySeptember 17, 20245KViews 1Like 0Comments

I grew up in Abundance. Not with but in. Abundance was plenty of food on grandma’s large dining table on the veranda of the inner courtyard; it was effusive love from all relatives, neighbors, and friends; it was ceaseless generosity by all; it was the constant receiving of gifts from almost everybody who visited our family; it was too…

At Home with Brother David

Homepage, PsychologySeptember 3, 20245KViews 1Like 0Comments

“What will it be like, how will it feel when, if ever, I find meaning in life?” I asked Brother David. “You will feel at Home,” he said patting me softly and reassuringly on my left shoulder. “At Home, at Home,” he repeated, and I knew he meant that the whole universe was this Home. And…

The Unlived Life of Parents

PsychologyJanuary 11, 20194KViews 5Likes 0Comments

“Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their children than the unlived life of the parent.” – Carl Jung

Aliveness

PsychologyJuly 13, 20164KViews 30Likes 0Comments

Dedicated to Brother David Steindl-Rast who turns 90 years young this very day. Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate department of life, the penthouse of our existence. But rightly understood, it is a vital awareness that pervades all realms of our being. Someone will say, “I come alive when I listen…

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