"To avoid the petty and illusory, everything that prevents us from being free and happy--that is the goal and meaning of our life. Forward! Do not fall behind, friends!"
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"Who knows? And what does it mean--to die? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and at his death only the five we know perish, while the other ninety-five remain alive."
- from Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard"
Tactile sign language.
History is a sandcastle we keep building, it gets knocked over by a wave, and then we rebuild it. Over and over and over again.
Unless I am hypnotized and forced to forget I know English, I will never really know what it is like to look at my own language as a stranger in a strange land.
"The world is something to be repaired." - ...is a Metaphor
Mill's constant and prime numbers.
Proof by contradiction.
Egyptians, and other past civilizations, and their fascination with the sky.
The use of computer simulations in discoveries about the past.
The Mahabharata
Symbols carry many layers of meaning.
The Zohar.
The idea that Infinity created God.
Or the idea that God created God.
Or the idea that God was always here. God is both the Nothing and the Something.
The idea that the soul is many parts.
What you focus on is a choice.
Modern scientific approach vs. Past scientific approach.
The lost city of Dwarka.
The Leiden Hymns (Egyptian poetry)
"The Flying Trunk" by Hans Christian Andersen - a great fairy tale mixed with a dash of reality at the end :-)
Music Selections:
The trouble with translation to English from other languages. The loss. The interpretation.
Raymond Carver's "Happiness" http://writersalmanac.
Perhaps sometimes love isn't an "I need you." Sometimes it isn't a "You're there for me whenever I need a shoulder to cry on." Sometimes love is a "I'm going to let you battle whatever you're currently going through alone, so you get stronger emotionally. So that you learn to solve your own emotional problems, because I know you can. And also so that you get to a point where you're sitting there and finally think, 'I don't need you. I don't need you at all...but I want you.'"
"I want you" is a choice. And that's what love is, especially for two independent adults. A choice to love each other every day. To keep saying and realizing "I want you" over and over and over, throughout the years. While, at the same time, helping each other become better and stronger at dealing with life's struggles.
Looking at what isn't there vs. what is there in order to solve problems.
Collective story telling vs. single author story telling.
Women were once pressured to be homemakers. Are women today pressured to have a career, or are we really opening the door for the opportunity of choice? When will we live in a society where people are not judged for the role they choose?
I'm starting to wonder if one of humanity's greatest falters was believing that there is one "right" way for all people.
England's old Poor Laws and developmental policy in countries today.
When basic needs are met, people really do want to feel like what they are doing is worthwhile and meaningful. #
What do we (humans) want to do that we've never done before?
Simple --> Complex --> Simple --> Complex
"Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?"
