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Category Archives: Self
A MISGUIDED BUT COMMON IDEA ABOUT DEMOCRACY, THE FIFTEEN MINUTES OF FAME IN AMERICA, AND TO KNOW YOURSELF.
“IN THE FUTURE EVERYBODY WILL BE WORLD FAMOUS FOR 15 MINUTES. ” ANDY WARHOL THE NATIONAL DREAM In the United States of America everybody is entitled to become famous, rich, successful, popular, even infamously, if its necessary, by … Continue reading
Posted in Arete, Carl. G. Jung, Celebrity, Counsciousness, Critical Thinking, Cultural Attitudes, Democracy, Dreams, Fame, Illusions, Know Thyself, Meritocracy, Money, Personal Story, Self, Success, Uncategorized, Wisdom
Tagged Andy Warhol, Democracy Vs Meritocracy, Dreamings, Fame And Fortune, Fifteen Minutes Of Fame, Happiness, Know Thyself, Success, Winning The Lotto
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MASTERY, AND THE MEANING OF PRACTICE
If people knew how hard I worked to get my Mastery it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all. Michelangelo Practice it is what is needed in order to achieve Mastery, and practice is work, the amount of time you work … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Attitudes, Direct Spiritual Experience, Dreams, Illusions, Infatuation, Inner Journey, Inspiration, Know Thyself, Mastery, Mysticism, Personal Story, Reality, Self, Spirituality, Uncategorized, Wisdom
Tagged Ceramics, Dojo, Hard Training, Illusion and Reality, Mastery, Movies, Pottery making, Sensei, Training
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THE TRAP OF THE SELF, OR THE LIMITATIONS OF EXISTENCE, EPICTETUS SUBJECTIVE FREEDOM
“If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died, the dream was over, you woke up. That’s what people meant when they talked … Continue reading
Posted in Being, Counsciousness, Crisis of Values, Critical Thinking, Dreams, Ego, Epictetus, Freedom, Imagination, Inspiration, New Values, Ontology, Philosophy, Self, The Subjective, Uncategorized, Values, Virtue
Tagged Dreaming, Epictetus, Freedom, Illusion and Reality, Personal circumstances, Philosophy, Reality, The Self, The Unexamined life
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LANGUAGE AND COUNSCIOUSNESS
“Before my teacher came to me, I did not know that I am. I lived in a world that was a no-world. I cannot hope to describe adequately that unconscious, yet conscious time of nothingness. Since I had no power … Continue reading
Posted in Adam, Advaita Vedanta, Ancient Religions, Angels, Atman, Aum, Brahman, Cosmogony, Counsciousness, Deconstruction, Ferdinand de Sassure, Haggada, Helen Keller, History, Ibn Arabi, Imagination, Inner Journey, Jacques Derrida, Language, Mandukya Upanishad, OM, Ontology, Philosophy, Postmodernism, Pragmatics, Reality, Sanatana Dharma, Self, Semantics, Solipsism, Spirituality, Subjective, Syntactics, The Deaf, Theology, Transformation, Uncategorized, Wisdom, Words Meaning, Writing
Tagged Adam, Angels, Aum, Brahman, Consciousnesses, Deconstruction, Derrida, Ferdinand de Sassure, Haggada, Helen Keller, Ibn Arabi, Language, Linguistics, Mandukya Upanishad, OM, onomatopoeia, Origins, Reality, Reductionism, Self, Semantics, Semiology
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