"One day you will remember this moment..." Thoughts on recollection, experience and memory.
Category: Philosophy
Life ®
The word ‘life’ is synonymous with complaints. “Life is getting me down.” “Frustrated with life” “My life sucks.” And so on. I hear it all the time and I use similar phrases. Recently I tried something different with my regard of this word ‘life’ and I capitalized it, to ‘Life’, to make it a noun,… Continue reading Life ®
Apart
I'm sure that I am raising a subject that has been practically trampled flat by the intellectual tread of masses of scholars far more erudite than myself, but it's something that echoes in my mind, and an element of human nature I share an uneasy relationship with; Why is that I so quickly reach out… Continue reading Apart
We are space already
We've been evolving from the beginning of civilization to a larger and larger perspective of life on the Earth. The next natural evolution is understanding the life in space, that is the fact that the Earth, as Buckminster Fuller used to famously say, is a spaceship; Spaceship Earth. We are in space already. It's just… Continue reading We are space already
Being Yourself
The sense of wishing to be known only for what one really is is like putting on an old, easy, comfortable garment. You are no longer afraid of anybody or anything. You say to yourself, 'Here I am --- just so ugly, dull, poor, beautiful, rich, interesting, amusing, ridiculous -- take me or leave me.'… Continue reading Being Yourself