A VERSION OF OURSELVES !!!

My mother used to tell me for years, that when very young, I refused milk, her milk, or any other from different animals, a doctor at the time advised her to try and feed me with yogurt as a trial, it worked, I'm not sure whether it was the sour taste or the fermentation that I must have liked, but, that was the beginning, I'm still hooked to fermentation,

Everyone knows someone who has a so called eating disorder,and everyone knows about the the huge numbers of people in the world who are starving. Excess is everywhere now, excess of wealth and of poverty, of sex and greed, of violence and of religious belief.


When people are being extreme they push things to their limits, when they are being excessive they push things beyond their limits.


When we are excessive we depart from custom or reason, we overstep limits, we go beyond our rights, we involve in what the dictionary calls extravagant violation of law, decency or morality, we are guilty of outrageous conducts. When we are excessive, in whatever way, we depart from what is considered appropriate behavior, we go out from custom or reason, we abandon, the version of ourselves we are supposed to be.


And where do we get our standards of appropriate behavior, our pictures of ourselves as we are supposed to be ??? from societies, tribes and families we grew up in.


We should be able to enter into the minds and circumstances of those with opposing views to our own.


It's all a matter of balance, as A. Phillips worked hard to express, again thanks for your patience and time and salamat

J.J., IMMANUEL, FRIEDRICH, AND ME.....

MY, your, or our own odyssey ended in serene isolation and tranquil passivity.

To finally choose to will not to will, and simply to exist in a state of perfect indolence and listlessness.

In my present situation, " I no longer have any other rule of conduct than in everything to follow my propensity and inclinations without restraint."

To record in writing my daydreams and to savor select episodes from my past in the pages of my reveries, a good man lost in his thoughts, savoring anew those moments, brief and transient yet sweet. When I had felt most " perfectly free."

It is founded on daily Soul-searching, "one may say about this way of life what one will." People who take it seriously are distinguished in a way that is worthy of honor. They possess the highest qualities that a human being can possess, namely a calmness and pleasantness, an inner peace that can be disturbed by no obsession, passion or craze.

"The gentle but sensitive tranquility," of the philosopher is infinitely preferable to the euphoric elation and thrills dreamed of by the mystics.

His would be a philosophical life devoted to calm reasoning, impermeable by design to the caprices of strong feelings and unruly impulses.

All changes nowadays frightens me, even one that might offer a greater prospect of improvement in my circumstances.

All I have wanted is a situation in which my spirit, hypersensitive but in other respects carefree, and my body, more troublesome but never actually sick, can both be kept busy without being strained, and that is what I have managed to obtain.

to reach the conclusion that;"The unexamined life is not worth living."


Again many thanks for your patience with my ideas, opinions and my friends, salamat.