Self
Sort of me, sort of everyone.
(My son asked me to explain our family background)
Our Family, the side that comes to you through me, has two parts: My Dad’s side and my Mom’s side.
They are very different. I’ll start with my Mom’s side because I know more about them. Also, they were nicer.
My Mom was Irene Dorothea Lundstrom. Born in 1929 on long Island, in New York and died in 2001 in Florida. She was a gem, by the way.
Her Parents were Hjalmar Georg Lundstrom and Aina Helena Sundberg. Both born in the 1880s in Finland and died both at 95 years old, on Long Island.
This is the hardy and competent (yet quirky) peasant side of the family.
Grandpa was born in the southwestern Houtskär region of Finland, a group of wild and thinly populated islands. (Wiki help included here) Continue reading
“The degree of necessity determines the development of organs of perception in man… therefore to increase your perception, increase your necessity.”
― Idries Shah, The Way of the Sufi
A brilliant short video on the tumultuous process of becoming a complete personality.
Maybe everything we hope for ourselves depends one day, upon finding the courage to step forward.
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- Lovely day…
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- How have you been?
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- Who is it?
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- Wait here for me.
“We are so convinced that past evils must repeat themselves that we make them repeat themselves. We dare not risk a new life in which the evils of the past are totally forgotten; a new life seems to imply new evils, and we would rather face evils that are already familiar… Hence we cling to the evil that has already become ours, and renew it from day-to-day, until we become identified with it and change is no longer thinkable.”
–Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation
“Any time you worry that someone is going to judge you, that is really you judging yourself”
– Joseph P. Kauffman
Until this is recognized you can’t do anything to correct it.
When I’m not writing obsessive pseudoscience I may well be dreaming on screen. Not a single one of these is new, but I felt like gathering them together to talk amongst themselves.
Load order is random to alter the story every time.
“I do not believe in free will. Schopenhauer’s words: ‘Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills,’ accompany me in all situations throughout my life and reconcile me with the actions of others, even if they are rather painful to me.”
– Albert Einstein
“You see, that’s why I think that people have affairs. Well, I mean, you know, in the theater, if you get good reviews, you feel for a moment that you’ve got your hands on something. You know what I mean? I mean it’s a good feeling. But then that feeling goes quite quickly. And once again you don’t know quite what you should do next. What’ll happen? Well, have an affair and up to a certain point, you can really feel that you’re on firm ground. You know, there’s a sexual conquest to be made, there are different questions: does she enjoy the ears being nibbled, how intensely can you talk about Schopenhauer in some elegant French restaurant. Whatever nonsense it is. It’s all, I think, to give you the semblance that there’s firm earth.
Well, have a real relationship with a person that goes on for years, that’s completely unpredictable. Then you’ve cut off all your ties to the land and you’re sailing into the unknown, into uncharted seas.”
– Andre Gregory: My Dinner With Andre
Carl Jung defined the shadow as the unknown dark side of the personality.
According to Jung, the shadow, being instinctive and irrational, is prone to psychological projection, in which a perceived personal inferiority is understood as a perceived moral deficiency in someone else.
I’m not remotely a bible guy but this is ‘chapter and verse’, my personal recipe from here forward.
“Listen carefully: I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; so be wise as serpents, and innocent as doves” [have no self-serving agenda].
– Matthew 10:16
To speak from strength, to be trustworthy, own your serpent and own your dove. For that matter, I suppose own your sheep and wolf as well.
