LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #11 – the challenge of VANITY (a.k.a. “beauty”) (addicted to attractive appearance or amorous affirmation) “Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.” ~ Albert Camus “Every person in […]
LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #11 – APPEARANCES (Part 2: a Beauty-full alternative … Solution #01) “The fixation on appearances is the first symptom of impotence.” ~ inspired by Fyodor Dostoyevsky As the first post on Appearance Addiction pointed out, fixating on “beauty” (either our own physical appearance or that of another) carries with it […]
LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #12 – the challenge of “Health” (i.e. lusting for longevity) “Age is one of the great modern adventures … If we take care of ourselves, we can be given several more decades. And yet most people do not se es this for its ultimate, dismaying, unintended consequence: By promoting longevity, […]
LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #12 – “Health” (Part 2 – a Way to Freedom) “It is not the end that matters in the Journey, but the Journey that matters in the end.” ~ Ursala K. LeGuin “Just because you’re not sick doesn’t mean you’re Healthy” ~ unknown There is no stronger instinct in the […]
“Diseases of the Soul are more numerous — and much more dangerous — than those of the body.” ~ Cicero By the way, the most important step (actually, the only step) to true Well-Being is completely missing from this image … What is it? Here’s a hint: the only way to truly “Live Passionately” is […]
A long life means nothing unless it is a life filled with Meaning; the Meaning that comes to those who choose LOVE — to those who choose to be gentle with their enemies, Kind to their strangers and Caring to their loved ones… And it is important to remember that this LOVE does not have […]
LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #13 – the challenge of SOCIAL MEDIA About two-thirds of all adults online say they use some type of social media like Facebook or Twitter, and Facebook alone currently has more than 900 million users worldwide – and those numbers are only growing larger each day. There is little doubt […]
Addiction #13 – SOCIAL MEDIA (Part 2 … a Way to Freedom) “Danny did not think cocaine and computers were anything alike. But Jude had seen the way people hunched over their screens, clicking the refresh button again and again, waiting for some crucial if meaningless hit of information, and he thought it was almost […]
“When we are alone on a night of scintillating starlight; when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest; when we see children in a moment when they are really children; when we know Love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet Basho […]
LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #14 – the challenge of meaningless TALKING “It is not enough for language to have clarity and content … It must also have a noble purpose and an caring imperative. Otherwise from such hollow language we descend to idle chatter, from idle chatter to inane babble, and from inane babble […]
Addiction #14 – meaningless TALKING (Part 2 … a Way to Freedom) “It is not our speaking that breaks our deep silence, but rather our self-centered desire to be heard clearly – and our fear of not being heard at all … The humble man, on the other hand, speaks only to be spoken to. […]
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