"When you begin to think outside the box, you often become some other "leaders" lousy follower. That usually costs something" (Andy Rayner)

"Our guardian angels are bored." (Mike Foster)

It's where I feel I'm at these days. “In the second half of life, it is good just to be a part of the general dance. We do not have to stand out, make defining moves, or be better than anyone else on the dance floor. Life is more participatory than assertive, and there is no need for strong or further self-definition” (Falling Upward. Richard Rohr.120).

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Buying Intense Experience?

"I would learn it all again and something else - that the innocence and intensity of childhood comes back only in little unexpected and empirical moments, and that, being a man, I was much too corrupt and superficial, much too enslaved by the safety of stale emotions to be able to remake myself, to submit myself to life. If life has any meaning at all towards the end, it is certainly only in one's ability to draw from the well of memory a satisfying amount of intense experience to contemplate, for the things that are forgotten are only symbols for the parts of us that have already died. 

Part of the middle class tragedy lies in the facility with which intense experience can be synthesized and bought."


- Moritz Thomsen. The Saddest Pleasure: A Journey On Two Rivers. 

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