I realized that my desire to be loved faded due to a lack of faith that it was possible (the reason for this lack of faith is not important, but the consequences are) and gradually transformed into a desire to be admired
About your essay “The Self is a Conceptual Chimera“.
It was a pleasure for me to read your essay in a book “What is Your Dangerous Idea?” It resonated with me, and I believe it’s the most brilliant idea of all those “dangerous” ideas in the whole book.
Almost everybody knows this Buddhist tale...
A man is strolling in the forest, when he sees a tiger, bounding down the track towards him. As the tiger closes upon him, the track comes to an end at the edge of a cliff, man jumps. Luckily, he is able to grab a hold of a vine, which brings him up short against the cliff. Below him another tiger is waiting for him to fall down...
Once, I was planning to write about a Russian composer and pianist named Oksana. I had already met with her, talked, and taken some pictures of her, so I thought I had everything I needed. But there was no life in that material, something was missing... as if I could not find the key component. Suddenly, I realized what it was!
I noticed her the moment I came into that small cafe. That deep dark eyes... I bet I saw them before. I don’t remember where. She was sitting near the window in the cozy alcove, with her mug full with coffee. She sat so still and her face was so out of emotions that I could think that she was hypnotized. I could see her face from where I sat and it charmed me. I was trying to recall where I could see it before, when a small tear has dropped into her mug.
Perhaps, if she could find at least one pair of ear plugs before going to bed last night, Amy wouldn't have woke up from a slight metal clicking. But all earplugs seemed to have magically vanished from the house, and she was forced to expose her ears to all possible sounds night and morning could bring. Night wasn’t that bad. Besides, she slept much deeper during night hours, but became really sound-sensitive around morning time.
1. We are discovering again that we live in deeply mysterious world, full of sudden coincidences and anachronistic encounters that seem destined.
Mother! - one of the most amazing examples of modern cinematographic symbolism I've ever decoded. And still will be decoding for a while at least for the fun of it.
It's been a great journey to have access to so much great stuff to watch that comes free with Amazon Prime membership, which itself is not necessarily cheap, but the Amazon Instant Video in my opinion completely makes up for it.
I believe that gratitude is a great state of mind and heart that can bring you to an awareness and eventually pure happiness. Even during the hardest times, it’s so easy to bring back this great feeling of understanding that your life is actually full of blessing – just by entering this state of gratitude.
