Playing With Perspectives

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A sense of emptiness accompanies the lack of authentic self-expression.

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What do you want to be up to before you die?

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For happiness in life, basically what's needed is enjoying one's experience, no matter what it is, and setting goals for yourself to move toward to everyday. This creates a sense of hope and meaning.

Edited May 15 by UnbornTao

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Our assumptions set the parameters for our ways of thinking about, and interpreting, 'reality'.

Edited May 15 by UnbornTao

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Diogenes looking for an honest man.

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"The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction."

- Helen Keller, The World I live in (1910).

 

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If you hold yourself as fundamentally unworthy or unlovable, what effects do those beliefs have on your life and relationships?

You might only want to relate to people that don't love you. Whenever you feel loved by the other, you might unconsciously sabotage the relationship. After all, if you assume yourself to be fundamentally unlovable, being loved might threaten that assumption. You'd rather be right and suffer as a result than being proven wrong, yet receive love.

What are dynamics such as this one about? Self-sabotage? Limiting beliefs?

Edited November 17 by UnbornTao

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What is concept?

Edited April 14 by UnbornTao

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"The single biggest problem in communication
is the illusion that it has taken place."

-- George Bernard Shaw

Hey, this is essentially what I said here:

On 16/12/2023 at 5:27 PM, UnbornTao said:

Presuming that listening has occurred when it hasn't is a trap.

 

Edited April 24 by UnbornTao

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a cherry tree 
being nourished 
by falling blossoms

–Basho

Edited September 11 by UnbornTao

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The difference that turns life from a mediocre attempt at subsistence into an adventure of growth and learning is your ability and willingness to open yourself fully to your present experience and contemplating it.

Edited September 11 by UnbornTao

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I had been noticing for some time the role that metaphors play in shaping our thinking and language. It's quite revealing and more prevalent than we think.

I'm going to use AI in order to compile a list of metaphors that invent, define and/or shape the ways we experience, conceptualize, and communicate:

• Jumping to conclusions
• Falling in love
• Splitting hairs
• Being blind to something: another's motives, etc
• Recovering time / Making up for lost time
• Seeing eye to eye
• Bridging the gap
• Turning over a new leaf
• Planting seeds of doubt
• Nurturing a relationship
• Weathering the storm
• Climbing the ladder of success
• Walking on eggshells
• Burying the hatchet
• Seeing the light at the end of the tunnel
• Dancing with the devil
• Playing devil's advocate
• Painting with broad strokes
• Swimming against the current
• Casting a wide net
• Walking a tightrope
• Sowing the seeds of discord
• Building castles in the air
• Climbing the walls
• Lifting the veil
• Time is money
• Food for thought
• Beating around the bush
• Letting the cat out of the bag
• Hitting a wall
• Keeping an eye on something
• Opening a can of worms
• Feeding an idea
• The weight of responsibility
• The flow of a conversation
• A window of opportunity
• The roots of a problem
• Climbing the corporate ladder
• The fabric of society
• A memory lapse
• The spark of an idea
• Bottleneck
• Cloud computing
• Emotional baggage
• Brainstorming
• Surfing the web
• Feeling drained
• Burning the midnight oil
• A heart of stone
• Breathing new life into something
• Spinning your wheels
• Biting off more than you can chew
• Going out on a limb
• Raining on someone's parade
• Having a chip on your shoulder
• Burying your head in the sand
• Letting someone off the hook
• Being a couch potato
• Having a green thumb
• Pulling someone's leg
• Cutting corners
• Hitting the nail on the head
• Passing the buck
• Biting the bullet
• Beating a dead horse
• Reinventing the wheel
• Going down the rabbit hole
• Putting your foot in your mouth
• Chewing someone out
• Giving someone the cold shoulder
• Hitting the sack
• Having a change of heart
• Making a mountain out of a molehill
• Breaking the ice
• Letting your hair down
• Having a blast
• Losing your marbles
• Spilling the beans
• Hitting the books
• Feeling under the weather
• Turning a blind eye
• Having blinders on
• Having rose-colored glasses on
• Being in the dark
• Wearing beer goggles
• Seeing what you want to see
• Having a blind spot
• Living in a bubble
• Having tunnel vision
• Connecting the dots
• Gut feeling
• Butterflies in your stomach
• Stomach dropping
• Gut-wrenching experience
• Standing on your own two feet
• Being grounded
• Being open
• Being bent out of shape
• To straighten you up
• Being fit, being out of shape
• Being off-balance (psychologically or emotionally)
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Time Metaphors:

1. Time is a moving object:
   - "The years are flying by."
   - "The holidays are approaching."

2. Time is a stationary landscape:
   - "We're looking ahead to a bright future."
   - "We're leaving the past behind."

3. Time is a resource:
   - "I don't have enough time to finish this project."
   - "We're running out of time."

4. Time is money:
   - "Don't waste your time." "Saving time." "Spending time."
   - "I invested a lot of time in that project." 

5. Time is a container:
   - "We're in a new era."
   - "The meeting fell within the scheduled timeframe."

Space Metaphors:

1. Up is good, down is bad:
   - "She's really down today."
   - "Her spirits were lifted by the good news."

2. Physical closeness represents emotional closeness:
   - "We've grown apart over the years."
   - "They're a close-knit family."

3. Physical force represents emotional force:
   - "She was deeply moved by the speech."
   - "His words struck a chord with the audience."

4. Physical balance represents mental balance:
   - "She's a well-balanced person."
   - "He lost his equilibrium after the incident."

5. Physical obstacles represent difficulties:
   - "We're facing many hurdles in this project."
   - "She overcame numerous obstacles to achieve her goals."

 

Might read Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff in the future.

Edited September 11 by UnbornTao

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Worth taking a look:

• List of epistemologists
• List of philosophers

Edited May 27 by UnbornTao

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When you hold life as merely a pragmatic matter, this may diminish, and even undermine, your experience of vitality, intimacy, creativity, and all the other things that make life worth living.

Edited May 17 by UnbornTao

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Create a contrast between "living dead" and vital people. What sets them apart?

What does a powerful presence entail and what does it take to develop it?

Edited August 28 by UnbornTao

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Rather than resisting problems, viewing them as insurmountable obstacles to avoid, reframe them as challenges—processes of struggle that open the door to opportunities and lessons if you pay attention (and to the degree to which you do).

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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will

— Vernon Howard

Edited August 28 by UnbornTao

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The ability to actualize, to make real, to realize, could be called mastery.

Edited June 19 by UnbornTao

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Opportunism is often an antithesis of integrity.

Edited June 11 by UnbornTao

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Going through the motions vs paying closer attention.

Edited May 26 by UnbornTao