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My Journey Within
Earlier today, in a momentous break with recent routine, I set aside time to be with me, Abbie. My aim was to step outside the drumbeat of each-hour-taken-over-by-its-ineluctable-task. I wanted to bracket all the tasks and ask the question: Am … Continue reading
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Tagged a twosome with God, alchemist in his workshop, alchemy and secret doctrines, confessions, dating and "I know what you need.", defending identity, depth psychology, doing God's will, fear of God, Fear of intimacy, finding identity, finding one's self, friend as mirror, friendships that last through time, God and self-trust, God and the self, God sees me, God's will harmonious with mine, healthy mirroring, healthy responsiveness to differences in friends, heart-to-heart talk, hermetic wisdom, hidden depths, inner child, inner depths, inner truth, introspection, introspection and the unconcious, journey within, love lasting through time, maintaining identity, mental health, Nietzsche, perceiving one's wholeness, personal love and acceptance, personal relation to God, personhood and friendship, pseudo psychoanalytic manipulativeness, psychic surface and psychic depths, psychic wholeness, psychological health, psychological put downs, psychologizing as rudeness, psychologizing to gain power, psychology as seduction, recovering friendships, reunions with friends, seeing God, seeing one's self in the round, self and other, surface inconsistencies within psychic wholeness, time out, time out for friendship, unconscious motives, what's a matter yuh frigid?, who am I?, wholeness of self
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What’s With the Nothing?
What’s With the Nothing? In the mornings, when I sit for meditation, I ask for input from On High and generally aspire to learn what the day should hold for me if I orient rightly. Normally, the answers I get … Continue reading
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", absurdity, bigotry, blaming Israel, class hatred, conflict resolution, Continental philosophy, deep thinking, divine guidance, emptiness, evil doers, existentialists, global consensus, God in the world, happy every after, ideological conflict, intuitive insight, Israel, Jews, Martin Heidegger, meditation, nihilism, philosophers in cafes, Plato's Republic, pointlessness, political differences, Poussin’s Et in Arcadia ego, prayer input, psychical differences, purpose of life, race prejudice, received opinion, receptivity, root canal surgery, saving the planet, self-assurance, self-discovery, self-knowledge, self-realization, self-trust, skepticism, stereotyping, the big picture, The Nothing, trusting intuition, unforced agreement, who am I?
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