(April 27, 2016 at 6:56 am)robvalue Wrote: I've increasingly turned to analysing myself as I get older. I've become more aware of how easily I can get things wrong, and how I'm still kind of a mystery even to myself. It's like I'm slowly learning about myself.
I'm with you Rob. At the center of it all is the mystery of who the hell we are anyhow. It isn't up to us to decide what that will be, we just uncover it a little at a time. Quite likely it is a moving target anyhow. As you say, every so often we find we're working with data that's become outdated. Done correctly it is a humbling experience. Maybe that's why I like Tom Robbins writing so much. Here are a couple more gems from Still Life With Woodpecker:
Real courage is risking something that might force you to rethink your thoughts and suffer change and stretch consciousness. Real courage is risking one’s clichés.
Amnesia is not knowing who one is and wanting desperately to find out. Euphoria is not knowing who one is and not caring. Ecstasy is knowing exactly who one is – and still not caring.
