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If we have no essence - is it hormones that guides us....?

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If we have no permanent or separate self, we probably would change quite often. And we do... Our mood swings not just with aging - less testosterone in men and more in women - but also over days or weeks. So the teenager and the old man cannot be really the same... But some things in us seems to remain the same - do you for instance like the same music now as when you were seventeen? Or some of it? Or maybe some music  are timeless... (doesn't matter what genre) ? Anyway - in this guys there are many hormones acting - but there must be something more... I suppose we are not just matter.... For instance - what is music?

Stories

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We all tell stories, don't we. I do. I suppose we have to.  But we are not always aware of that we do it. Perhaps we think we talk about the Truth or facts. I tell stories around mindfulness, tries to make it meaningful, tries to make fit into a discourse. But I cannot leave the context and language that my clients feel at home with. I try to make my own life meaningful and therefore I tell a story about myself where mindfulness fits in. I'm really not sure if I tell the truth, but I anyway need the story, not at least for my own identity. Even parties need stories; In the Swedish election yesterday. The parties have to tell coherent stories about themselves, that may attract the voters. In politics we all now that the leaders make promises and often exaggerate. But we anyway sometimes are seduced by the stories. What we always don't see is that even such things that courts and judges are influenced by stories. Stories about what is a criminal behavio