mindfulness

"Everything changes and nothing remains still ... and ... you cannot step twice into the same stream" (Heraclitus according to Plato)  But even the foot changes, since new cells die and are born continuously..... So you cannot even step twice in a river with the same foot. Change seems permanent...  Even sorrow and depression will pass.  Though early wounds from childhood can be hard to get rid of, it is possible to be aware of them and to take care of them...  Like you would treat an inner child. But don't let sorrow and fear guide you and don't project it on the surroundings. Then you will end up with more trouble.... Metta meditation is a way to handle deep wounds... (though there may be other ways)

silence makes your thoughts more visible  so you can listen to them they are children of your ancestors , your upbringing and your environment and only partly yours just listen to them without condemning you cant get rid of them but you can embrace them  and make them calmer can you hear your mother and father? (music by Peteris Vasks from Lithuania, you can see him at the end)

What does that mean? In a postmodern time, with no solid values - religion seems to be old fashioned, belongs to an older society, at least the rituals and the religions that take away our own responsibility. God is taken down to earth, or is something to believe when we are in real crises. We  now know that we can make a disaster on earth and that we , as long as we have been on earth, have chased the big animals to extinction. We know that we no longer are in the center of the solar system. And that the solar system is in the outskirts of the galaxy and so on....                                           Freud and other after him, has shown that we even cant control ourselves. Dawkins with friends mean that the genes control us. Religion is just superstition. What is left? What to believe in? Is it really just to believe in oneself? Can it be as Wittgenstein has written; meaning lays in the context of language. We construct the meanings.Or maybe can the meanin

The young professor of philosophy from Germany, Markus Gabriel, explains that our  personality's is a kind of art. And this a theme in modern painting and theater: We are also our own painters and actors. Men is a living creativity. Creativity, fantasies and originality show the personality of man and they can to be thought away from humankind. So unicorns exist, at least in fiction and songs. His answer to the question; "Who am I?" is;  What ever holds my mental life together. But there are much less unity of my mental life then I will think it is. there is not a unity my mental life that is "me".Most of us are not schizophrenic and we can separate from other people and from our fantasies, at least to some extend. But as I have claimed; what holds us together is our stories about ourselves, our story about history and so on. And as we have a quite bad memory the stories will never be completely true. We also tend to emphasize our good moments, a