the long view: note-taking and becoming a person
The other day I was reading a book on “How to Take Smart Notes“, what I was really fascinated with wasn’t the note taking system itself, but the story about the person…
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the weight of a physical presence
It is surreal. My partner and I are self-isolating most of the time ever since we knew about the possibility of asymptomatic spread and the exponential math. But we’ve been homebodies before…
radiance of the presence of the divine
I look at you now in that sense, and the radiance of the presence of the divine is known to me through you.
an increasing tendency to live fully in each moment
A second characteristic of the process which for me is the good life, is that it involves an increasing tendency to live fully in each moment.
Being genuine also involves the willingness to be and to express
Being genuine also involves the willingness to be and to express, in my words and my behavior, the various feelings and attitudes which exist in me. It is only in this way that the relationship can have reality, and reality seems deeply important as a first condition. It is only by providing the genuine reality which is in me, that the other person can successfully seek for the reality in him.
I am leaving, because I can
on agency and self-love