Reading James Hillman's The Force of Character. The book talks about what is more important in the later years of our lives.
In trying to last, we seek to extend life. It is equally important to extend our understanding of life: life as it is, not as it was; life structured with intelligence; life as instruction.
In old age, interest shifts from information to intelligence. Information brings news, while intelligence searches it for insight. Information merely accumulates; insights last.
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Connecticut Elementary School Shooting
Dr. Ding, the Hong Kong sociologist, said mainland China schools he has visited in the past two years have beefed up security in the wake of the knife attacks.
"I think these kind of attacks become more frequent in many countries, not just China and U.S., because of a number of different factors," Ding said. "Number one is the increased pressure for individuals. Today's world is very different from the world we saw 50 years ago ... individuals in their daily life face much more uncertainty, risk, financial pressure and competition."
"The second thing is we live in a global village now, where the spread of information -- especially bad news -- is so instantaneous," said Ding, leading to more copycat crimes across the globe.
"I don't think we should limit the free press ... but people are watching this, they are learning from these kind of attacks. They are becoming more and more organized, better planned -- and that is horrible."
"I think these kind of attacks become more frequent in many countries, not just China and U.S., because of a number of different factors," Ding said. "Number one is the increased pressure for individuals. Today's world is very different from the world we saw 50 years ago ... individuals in their daily life face much more uncertainty, risk, financial pressure and competition."
"The second thing is we live in a global village now, where the spread of information -- especially bad news -- is so instantaneous," said Ding, leading to more copycat crimes across the globe.
"I don't think we should limit the free press ... but people are watching this, they are learning from these kind of attacks. They are becoming more and more organized, better planned -- and that is horrible."
Sunday, January 1, 2012
The Necessity of Atheism
The Necessity of Atheism
By DR. D. M. BROOKS
FREETHOUGHT PRESS ASSOCIATION NEW YORK
1933 BY FREETHOUGHT PRESS ASSOCIATION
(From Free Books)
Freethought has dethroned the gods from the pedestal, and has replaced, not an empty idol, but an ideal, the ideal of a man who is his own god.
It was Spinoza who remarked that, "The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live." Religious creeds can but teach how man should live, so that when he dies, he may be assured of salvation; and the important thing is not what he does to help his fellow men while he is living, but how closely he lives in conformity to a reactionary code of dogmas.
By DR. D. M. BROOKS
FREETHOUGHT PRESS ASSOCIATION NEW YORK
1933 BY FREETHOUGHT PRESS ASSOCIATION
(From Free Books)
Freethought has dethroned the gods from the pedestal, and has replaced, not an empty idol, but an ideal, the ideal of a man who is his own god.
It was Spinoza who remarked that, "The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live." Religious creeds can but teach how man should live, so that when he dies, he may be assured of salvation; and the important thing is not what he does to help his fellow men while he is living, but how closely he lives in conformity to a reactionary code of dogmas.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Carlos Casaneda
A man, any man, deserves everything that is a man's lot--joy, pain, sadness and struggle. The nature of his acts is unimportant as long as he acts as a warrior. Since death is going to overtake us regardless of anything. To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, and our manhood.
其实，一个人干什么并不重要，生活的方式有千万种，好与不好只是相对而言。酸甜苦辣是一定的。 重要的是，他是不是以一个勇士的身份出现，敢不敢于面对生活的挑战，他是不是在驾驭生活，还是被生活所驾驭。如果一个人缺乏精神的话，不管他其它方面多么富有，他的生活都不会稳定。
其实，一个人干什么并不重要，生活的方式有千万种，好与不好只是相对而言。酸甜苦辣是一定的。 重要的是，他是不是以一个勇士的身份出现，敢不敢于面对生活的挑战，他是不是在驾驭生活，还是被生活所驾驭。如果一个人缺乏精神的话，不管他其它方面多么富有，他的生活都不会稳定。
Friday, September 9, 2011
What we dread the most
From Father Brown Crime Stories
Page vii: What we dread most, is a maze with no center. We ourselves are the most unknowable labyrinths. We hide ourselves as though we were "scene shifters"; we build our houses, dress our bodies, speak our speeches to conceal our real natures, but in the act of hiding, we are revealed.
Page vii: What we dread most, is a maze with no center. We ourselves are the most unknowable labyrinths. We hide ourselves as though we were "scene shifters"; we build our houses, dress our bodies, speak our speeches to conceal our real natures, but in the act of hiding, we are revealed.
Monday, July 25, 2011
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