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« To find beauty, joy, where they give themselves: in this body, in this being, in this life and not in an idealized life. It is in everyday life, in the banal that joy resides. Page 39 »
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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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« The meeting is the place of passions, comparison, attraction and possession, fascination, fear and anger, shame and jealousy. But above all love, emulation, friendship and... joy. »
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Alexandre Jollien
The Naked Philosopher |
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Alexandre Jollien
The Naked Philosopher
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« Taking up on my own the definition made by the Greek philosophers of wisdom, I have long believed that it is ataxia, that is, the absence of troubles, the tranquility of the soul. Today, I have understood that wisdom consists in living with one's passions without them making us slaves, trying to find an unconditional joy that does not allow itself to be altered by the little hassles of everyday life. This attitude allows us to move towards freedom. For it is impossible to eradicate passions, and I would even say that it is not desirable. By strivising ourselves to defeat them, we kill life. »
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Alexandre Jollien
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Alexandre Jollien
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