Ladies and gentlemen of the class of ’97:
Wear sunscreen.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.
Continue reading “Wear Sunscreen”I learned two very important lessons from Carl Jung about “doing unto others as you would have them do unto you” or “loving your neighbour as yourself”. The first lesson is that neither of these statements has anything to do with being nice. The second was that both are equations, rather than injunctions.
Continue reading “Treat Yourself Like Someone You Are Responsible for Helping”Because territory matters , and because the best locales are always at short supply, territory seeking among animals produces conflict.
Continue reading “Stand Up Straight With Your Shoulder Back”If you analyse the nature of a thousand human beings, all you’re left with is two dozen qualities, feelings, forms of development, constructive principles and so on, which is what they all consist of. And if you analyse the human body, all you’re left with is water and a few dozen little heaps of matter floating round in it.
Robert Musil | The Man Without Qualities
In her sufferings she read a great deal and discovered that she had lost something, the possession of which she had previously not been much aware of: a soul.
What is that? It is easily defined negatively: it is simply what curls up and hides when there is any mention of algebraic series.
But positively? It appears that this is where it successfully eludes all efforts to grasp it.
Continue reading “The Portals Of The Soul”