How come one feels out of place in your own culture? I struggle with the Music I struggle with the cultural confines and the overall mind set. I listen to French music, find eastern music alluring and struggle with my own sounds. I love my language, I love the ability to express myself so clearly […]
Thinking about death might not sound like an appropriate thing to do. Lately I have been thinking about it a lot. Not in a sense that I would like to end mine one way or another,but in a way of it is going to happen. One day ‘I’ will be no more. Someplace I read […]
In the journey of life, we mostly walk alone. We are in the end alone. We die alone, our existence is as Frankl put it caught up in a Tragic triad of suffering, guilt and death. What makes this for me so much more personal is that from a Buddhist perspective even life is seen as […]
I wanted to call this Blog “Losing yourself”, subsequent to that Sting’s song How Fragile we are played on the radio and it just hit a nerve on something related to our loosing ourselves and how fragile we are. In the last few months I have been confronted with what people give up in the […]
Def. Hendrix and Hunt selected the word “imago,” the Latin word for “image,” as a name for the “unconscious image of the opposite sex that you had been forming since birth Imago Therapy is a relationship theory on how we select the people we go into relationships with. It amazes me sometimes about how much […]
Victor Frankl one of my favorite psychologists defines our need for meaning as the driving force for our existence. He calls it the will to meaning. So according to him we create meaning in three ways. “We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by creating a work or doing a […]
Having had a N.D.E. (Near Death Experience) in the late 90’s made me realize life in itself are made up of and consists mainly of relationships. We are as individuals always engaged in some kind of relationship. As the popular culture a while ago has demonstrated “emotional intelligence” consists to a large extent of relational […]
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