Tag: Thinking
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Consciousness: The Search for Who You Are
Many people have periods in their lives where they turn inward and question who they are. This self-inquisition can originate in almost any set of circumstances and comes about not as a result of the circumstances themselves but as a result of the reaction of internal psychic forces to these circumstances. Other people explore this…
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In Praise of suffering
Knowledge by suffering entereth,and life is perfected by death. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Vision of Poets Often we recoil from suffering. We seek to eliminate it from our lives through elimination of risks, by taking opiates, and avoidance. While we should continually seek to eliminate suffering and its causes in this world, we cannot eliminate…