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Getting a Grip
Lately, I’ve been in a funny sort of crisis: the crisis when nothing is going wrong — and that’s what’s wrong! It’s as if the distance between my present place and its boundaries is equidistant on every side. Nothing inclines me to … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", alone in a crowd, anguish, anti-semitism, Authenticity, author and critics, bad art, book as its own last word, California, changing what you can, choreographing a life, deciphering anguish, directionlessness, divine assignments and handicaps, divine clues, explaining one's book, fashionable despair, feeling disconnected, feeling rootless, feeling ungrounded, futility, Heidegger's uncanny, honest prayer, learning from horses, life seeming pointless, living with a handicap, loss of direction, loss of grip, loss of motivation, loss of purpose, manipulativeness, Martin Heidegger, mediation methods, meditation insights, mental standstill, messages from nature, neuropathy, neuropathy treatments, nobody understands me, overcontrolling, philosophy of human existence, psychological crisis, quieting the mind, styles of life, sympathizing with one's body, taking the body seriously, the future as predictable, the future as surprising, the future as unpredictable, the weight of the world, unheimlich, unwarranted despair, unwelcome freedom, what's wrong is that nothing is wrong, worry about the world
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