« Praise of weakness traces an inner route, a kind of conversion to philosophy. The author, handicapped by birth, imagines receiving a visit from Socrates in person. From then on, an exchange ensues where from near to near emerge - tools to learn to progress in joy, to keep the course in the heart of the torments and not to be determined by the gaze of the other. Philosophy here is an art of living, a way to abandon prejudices in order to discover oneself and build one's uniqueness. Gradually, a conversion takes place, the weak, the vulnerability, the trial can become fertile places of freedom and joy. »
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Alexandre Jollien
Praise for weakness |
Alexandre Jollien
Praise for weakness
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« I let the emotion come, then develop and fade on my own. Because comparison kills the world and the real. »
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Alexandre Jollien
Small Treatise on Abandonment: Thoughts to Welcome Life as It Proposes |
Alexandre Jollien
Small Treatise on Abandonment: Thoughts to Welcome Life as It Proposes
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« '...) the exercise of meditation consists in seeing the emptiness, to let yourself be totally relaxed in the emptiness. To think of thoughts as birds. And behind the birds, there is an immensely blue sky. »
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Alexandre Jollien
Small Treatise on Abandonment: Thoughts to Welcome Life as It Proposes |
Alexandre Jollien
Small Treatise on Abandonment: Thoughts to Welcome Life as It Proposes
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