ONCE YOU TURN 30 (OR thereabouts), no one calls you an “old soul.”
Tag: learned
What I wish I’d known before I had to learn it.
Vive La Difference
From Josee Wolff, The Torah: A Women’s Commentary:
“…The pessimist observes a situation, generalizes about the bad aspects, and interprets them as a permanent and constant feature. In contrast, the optimist observes the same situation and sees the bad aspects, but particularizes them and interprets them as a temporary obstacle that can be overcome.”
Apprentice Question
“WHAT CAN I DO, RIGHT now, to better myself?”
Spectrum
AS SOUND IS SLOWLY-VIBRATING light, ambition is slowly-vibrating desperation.
The Other Secret
WHEN IN DOUBT, SHOOT FROM the heart.
Litmus
A SURE TEST OF ANY theology is to ask, “Does God exist before human beings?”
Among other things, the answer can shed light on one’s grasp of science. For if you allow for a God who watched over the dinosaurs, who saw the primordial soup trend toward consciousness on a billion planets, who was delighted by the Big Bang — in short, One who doesn’t need humans to survive and Whom humans can only love fiercely but dimly — you may well be on to something.
Pithyism #65b
MATURITY IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN we choose to be fascinated by something other than ourselves.
Pithyism #30
DOES THE PHRASE “OLD SOUL” apply to anyone past their early 20s?
Pithyism #72
OUR POLITICAL LANDSCAPE MIGHT BE less prickly were our politics not so personal.
Waiting
OF ALL HUMAN EXPERIENCES, WAITING may be the least explicable.
We usually experience Time both as a series of events (“progression”) and an eternal Now (“duration”). Progression is as a pot slowly boiling or day growing late or stomach more hungry. “Duration” is the center of whatever moment (and all moments) we experience. These levels are so seamless as to first appear invisible. (Work with me here.)
Waiting suspends your attention — you’ve given your order, taken your place in line, tried to start the engine — now what? Continue reading “Waiting”
The Root Of All Our Problems
SLOPPY THINKING.
Let’s Try This Again
“GOD” IS THE EXPERIENCE OF “experiencing God.”