« I often wonder when I act with others, when I am with relatives or those less close: "Do I tend to the good or do I want to please the other?" »
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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 FRAYEUR tells us: I see the crowd of men, like Damocles, adopting a thousand postures to accommodate the danger that awaits them. It is he who leads the philosopher to ask himself the radical question: how to lead his life under the sword? The fragility and precariousness of the condition of mortals throw them in my arms: one father fears the death of his child, another apprehends losing his job. This woman tries every morning to detect the traces of an evil, while the idea of missing her life eats away at this young man. I take innumerable forms: fear, fear, the little jitters that precede an ordeal, the pet, the fright, the terror, the anxiety, the fear, the phobia, the haunting, or to show me more modern: obsessive compulsive disorder, panic attacks, generalized anxiety, dread. Let's get it! There are only a few people who do not experience phobophobia, the fear of being afraid. So, try in vain to run away from me. And the more you try to keep me at bay, the more ground I gain. That's one of my strengths. »
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Alexandre Jollien
Self-building: A use of philosophy |
Alexandre Jollien
Self-building: A use of philosophy
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« All we think we know about reality are just labels that freeze it. It's about letting life go, dancing with it without immobility »
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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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