Category: Philosophy
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The Return Of The Repressed: At 69
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I am 69 now, and how have I reached this age? I was aware all the time. Interiorly I could be 20, 40, even 50, but time has brought me to this point ineluctably. Fascinating, for the exterior self has weathered, grown not a little creaky and grayer and less efficient,…
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What Is It to Be Inwardly Free?
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I don’t know. I can say that for at least 34 years I have struggled with that. Dr. Neil Friedman started my search when he assigned Krishnamurti’s The Flight of the Eagle in his social work class. I recall how I found that book so dense with meaning, so conceptual…
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Here I Stand, Martin Luther in Defense of his Theses.
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I admire that short sentence although I do not admire Luther who was an anti-Semite. Some of his essays about Jews are vitriolic. Unwilling to convert to Protestantism, Luther tagged them as “this insufferable devilish burden.” Read his “The Jews and Their Lies” (1543) and his “suggestions” of how to deal…
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What Is It To Work On One’s Self
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In the last 7 to 10 days I have been beset by yahoos, that Swiftian nomenclature for libidinous creatures, low in intellect, high in passion, applying no rationality to their lives. it was Theodore Dreiser who said that out of a thousand human beings nine hundred and ninety nine are…