Posted by Bob Adamcik | Oct 1, 2020 | Change, Contentment, Happiness, Human Nature, Search, The self | 1 |
…and the inherent difficulties surrounding it. In my experience, discontent arises out of dissatisfaction. The greater (and more pernicious) the discontent, the deeper the dissatisfaction. And the deepest dissatisfaction...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Sep 27, 2020 | identity, Notes, Significance, The self | 0 |
…that has ever lived, unique not only among the living but among all the dead. .
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Oct 20, 2019 | Contentment, Human Nature, Mortality, Notes, Reality, Search, The self, Time | 0 |
A few days ago, I was listening to an interview of a Venezuelan writer. She had left the shell of what was, only a decade or so ago, one of the more thriving economies of Latin America. Now living in Spain, she had written a...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Apr 6, 2019 | Contentment, Happiness, identity, Notes, Search, Self-image, The self, Values | 0 |
I found a surprising bit of substance in a piece of escape fiction last week. Laurence Shames, in “Scavenger Reef,” tells of the death of Augie Silver, one of those rare individuals who are effortlessly successful in...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Oct 17, 2018 | Human Nature, identity, Notes, Self-image, The self, Values | 1 |
It occurs to me this morning that shame is perhaps the most powerful of emotions, more so than any other. Certainly is is the most unappreciated. Shame goes to the core of our self image, or perhaps to the image we present to...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Feb 11, 2018 | identity, Notes, Search, Self-image, The self | 2 |
In this excellent short article by Zat Rana, he relates the adage about living each day as if it were your last. Then he goes on to note that his own approach is slightly different. Each day, he imagines that he has five more...
Read MoreThese following is a quote from “Straw Dogs:” Virtual reality is a technological simulation of techniques of lucid dreaming practised by shamans for millennia. Using fasting, music, dance and psychotropic plants, the...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Nov 17, 2017 | Contentment, Human Nature, identity, Notes, Search, The self | 1 |
…the realization I could have lived different lives is only now becoming real to me. The one I chose (or that chose me, whether by fear or fate or circumstance), is only this I know. Even as I write this, I only now...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Apr 9, 2017 | Human Nature, identity, Notes, Self-image, The self | 0 |
Turn cliché on its head: Do unto yourself as you would unto others…or “as you would unto others, do unto yourself”. It’s about self love.
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