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« I just read an advertisement about self-assertion. Can I really be taught to assert myself? Often misunderstood, this attitude is reduced to a ferocious arrogance that sends everything fart. How can we claim to be free even when we are only reacting, than positioning ourselves in relation to others, or against him? Opposing, asserting oneself, is not a posture of exile, of one who does not yet live in himself? »
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Alexandre Jollien
The Naked Philosopher |
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Alexandre Jollien
The Naked Philosopher
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« My master entrusted me with an exercise: to meditate on the gospel passage of the calmed storm: Jesus sleeps in peace in a restless boat that takes on water. Everyday life is this boat and I have to be abandoned even in the squall. Rest in action. »
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Alexandre Jollien
Living without why |
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Alexandre Jollien
Living without why
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« What helps me is the practice of one hour of meditation a day. During this hour, I watch the ideas pass as they present themselves to my mind without refusing or clinging to any of them. It's kind of like a passing train. I'll let it go. There are cars that are hyperbruyant, I let them pass. Cars of anguish, which I let pass without a problem. There are cars loaded with rabid foxes, cars of multiple sclerosis, multiple cars of road accidents, cancer, leukemia, etc. »
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Alexandre Jollien
Small Treatise on Abandonment: Thoughts to Welcome Life as It Proposes |
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Alexandre Jollien
Small Treatise on Abandonment: Thoughts to Welcome Life as It Proposes
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