“People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely oral people - a conversation with no one and yet with everyone. What could be stranger than the silence one encounters when addressing a question to a text? What could be more metaphysically puzzling than addressing an unseen audience, as every writer of books must do? And correcting oneself because one knows that an unknown reader will disapprove or misunderstand?” PeopleKnowsWritingMayBookSilenceAudienceKnow HowStrangeReaderConversationOneselfStrangerEncountersUnseenWondrousCorrectingAnthropologistsPuzzling Book:Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping the weights and sprinting towards his goals. Those who insincerely misunderstand, who intentionally distort the motives of a pure-intentioned individual, then, no longer have the opportunity to block his path; instead, they are the ones left to stand on the sidelines shouting frustratedly in the wind of his trail.” MayRunningOpportunityIndividualLeftGoalPathWindPureWeightOneselfBurdenBlockMotiveStoppingTrailsFrustratingDroppingShoutingSidelines Author:Criss Jami
“The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.” MayStillsHelpingMajorsOneselfAcceptedVehicleRevealingTherapeuticBeing Accepted Author:Irvin D. Yalom
“To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.” MayMeanArtFeelingsFormSoundLinesMovementColorExpressionActivityOneselfEvoke Author:Leo Tolstoy
“Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.” MayPainOrderOneselfPassiveBenevolence Author:George Meredith
“There are essential and inessential insanities... Inessential insanities get one in trouble with oneself. Essential insanities get one in trouble with others. It's always preferable to be in trouble with others. In fact, it may be essential.” MayFactsTroubleEssentialsOneselfInsanityStill Life With Woodpecker Book:Still Life with Woodpecker Source: Still Life with Woodpecker
“When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, seems to be potentially every man's biography regarding God's promised experiences and truth for him - his individual, unique path of humbling oneself before the Lord and then being exalted by the Lord back into his true and righteous personhood. Many followers may speak of it merely to try to change other people (before changing themselves), but the prophets speak of it as a living word which miraculously tells their very own experiences.” PeopleMenTryingMaySeemsIndividualSpeakChristLordPathUniqueUnderstoodOneselfEvery ManProphetFollowersRighteousBiographiesExaltedHumblingPersonhoodHumbling Experiences Author:Criss Jami
“I have heard Shree Rajneesh and have been inspired by his talks. His works are sublimne and seek to liberate the soul of humans. Indeed his presentation is unique, his goal is great and his success in liberating each person from the mafia surrounding the soul is rewarding reading. The message that he had to deliver must reach everywhere. Ultimately salvation comes when one attains freedom from oneself. That, I believe, is the consummation which exposure to Osho may help.” BelieveHumansMayPersonsHas BeensSoulHelpingReadingI BelieveGoalHeardMessagesUniqueSalvationInspiredOneselfExposureLiberatingMafiaPresentation Author:V. R. Krishna Iyer