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“The Gift of the Dying,”

Abhijit V. Banerjee • Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

The Ego, Jung tells us, is that part of the psyche that we think of as "I." Our conscious intelligence. Our everyday brain that thinks, plans and runs the show of our day-to-day life. The Self, as Jung defined it, is a greater entity, which includes the Ego but also incorporates the Personal and Collective Unconscious. Dreams and intuitio

Steven Pressfield • The War of Art

Gabriel Marcel, décédé le 8 octobre 1973. Pour lui, comme pour Jaspers, les êtres humains étaient foncièrement des vagabonds. On ne possède jamais rien, on ne s’installe jamais vraiment nulle part, même si on reste à un endroit toute sa vie. Nous sommes toujours Homo viator, « homme voyageur », pour reprendre le titre de l’un de ses recueils d’essa

Aude de Saint-Loup • Au café existentialiste : La liberté l être & le cocktail à l abricot (French Edition)

The only way death is not meaningless is to see yourself as part of something greater: a family, a community, a society. If you don’t, mortality is only a horror. But if you do, it is not. Loyalty, said Royce, “solves the paradox of our ordinary existence by showing us outside of ourselves the cause which is to be served, and inside of ourselves th... See more

Atul Gawande • Being Mortal

The very awareness of mortality suddenly puts life into bold relief. No aspect of life can be taken for granted; no feature of one’s personal way is either eternal or absolutely necessary. Thus, one can review, fine-tune, or alter with a new consciousness of alternatives.

Irving Greenberg • The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays

The condition of our freedom, then, is that we understand ourselves as finite. Only in light of the apprehension that we will die—that our lifetime is indefinite but finite—can we ask ourselves what we ought to do with our lives and put ourselves at stake in our activities.

Martin Hägglund • This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom

On life: the more you feel, the more you alive you are, and the more death becomes omnipresent; a constant in your mind. But in turn, the thought of death becomes your motivation to live harder. feel stronger. And the cycle is infinite, until death shines upon you its magnificent light.

Each of the five survival patterns can be seen as the result of getting stuck in a particular developmental stage, unable to learn the skills and complete the main task of that stage.

Steven Kessler • The 5 Personality Patterns: Your Guide to Understanding Yourself and Others and Developing Emotional Maturity

“ We build our own prisons and serve as our own jailkeepers… but clearly our parents and the society at large have a hand in building our prisons. They create roles for us — and self-images — that hold us captive for a long time. The individual intent on self-renewal will have to deal with ghosts of the past — the memory of earlier failures, the re