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Writing? Reading? Walking? Telling Stories? Spending time with friends? All of the things!
If I had to choose 10 things that I am passionate about it would certainly be:
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Healthy Self-Talk
If it is one thing that I have become more and more aware of lately, it is my own self-talk. What is the nature of my self-talk at present? Is there room for improvement as concerning my own self-talk? To answer the former question I will share with you all a dialogue I have been…
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Doctor, doctor
“Your stomach is distended, your foot is tophic, and you certainly have a fixation”Doctor, doctor, give me the news,But whatever you do, Do not confuse! Heartache, you haven’t got a clue!This isn’t the physical, vitalistic aching heartIt’s the affective, no the subjective, He sees his patient’s ignorance, his patient’s discontent, his patient’s impertinenceListen to me,…
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Oh but we are all too different!
Jake: Today then Socrates, I talk to you of the French philosopher Michel de Montaigne. You should consider yourself most lucky Socrates, if it wasn’t for me you would never have lived to read of this man’s philosophy. But now you will! Here I have his wonderful book, his magnum opus: Essays. I was very…
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Lend me your ears!
Jake: In my day, Socrates, we call them hospitals. What word is it you use? Perhaps you call them the clinic. Can you imagine yourself Socrates, how large these hospitals are? At any rate, I was in the hospital last night. I took very ill unfortunately. Socrates: What happened? Jake: The doctor that saw me…
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Mutatio
Socrates: And so you want me to tell you how you ought to respond to someone who thinks that the way they are currently feeling will last forever? Jake: Exactly.Socrates: Why on earth someone would think that anything lasts forever is well beyond me. Let alone their human emotional states.Jake: But alas, Socrates, what you do…
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I am the Writer in the Arena
One of my favourite speeches would have to be the famous “Man in the Arena” that Theodore Roosevelt delivered on April, 23rd, 1910. “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs…
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In conversation with Socrates
There was never a better time of day for some delightful and inspired intercourse with the masterful and ever questioning Socrates. The sunshine was golden, the clouds were listening, the birdsong was grand, and the place of discussion was the Athenian agora. The end and aim of the conversation? Truth, glorious truth. Jake: But you…
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The Navigator of Navigators
‘Twas a delightful Summer’s dayThat beautiful golden sunshine, mounted high in the skyThe cumulus, and the cumulo The cirrus, and the cirroThey had all taken their leave The Kingdom of God, oh it was seen!It was seen, it was heard, it was feltThousands, then millions, marched across the veldtMarching across the veldt; towards the land…