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Bad advice

Saturday, 28. November 2009, 17:28:28

psychology

Someone told me that he had told someone else:

Don't get Troels wrong.

I regard this as the dumbest I have ever heard him say!

"Who are you, really?"

Thursday, 12. November 2009, 06:45:26

psychology

The other day I received, through a mutual friend, a greeting from the only person that I remember ever having asked the question in this completely generic form.

Funnily, I do not know if he was really interested in getting to know the truth.

Knowing your destiny?

Thursday, 24. September 2009, 18:57:51

psychology

I once read a story about a man who learned, through a mystical experience many years in advance, to know his destiny. He went insane under the burden of his knowledge.

I can relate to that.

Tuning yourself

Friday, 18. September 2009, 10:06:21

psychology

If you tighten the string too much, it will snap. And if you leave it too loose, it won't play.

Legend has it that prince Siddharta, later to be known as Buddha, sat at a tree near a river and overheard an old musician telling a pupil this basic truth about strings while they were sailing by on a boat.

For us who fail

Monday, 27. July 2009, 11:41:27

literature, psychology, philosophy

I do not remember if I have quoted anything of this before, or if I only thought about doing so. But that does not really matter much. The words of those two great writers are certainly worthy of being repeated again and again and again:

Dimensionality

Friday, 29. May 2009, 12:44:07

psychology, philosophy

Some people seem to live in personal realities that have a lot in common with mine. (Or perhaps we really share the same reality, it's just that we are not equally familiar with all aspects of it.)

Others very obviously live in realities that are extremely different from mine. I have been thinking about the nature of those differences.

Chunk of wisdom from the White House about strength and weakness

Sunday, 29. March 2009, 14:59:25

psychology

David Axelrod, senior adviser to US president Barack Obama, had this truly wonderful tidbit to say about vice-president Joseph Biden. (And about humanity in general):

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