Sunday, January 30, 2011

From the Stray Thought Bin - "The Believer in Magic"

For the believer in magic, words are just words with no substance behind them. Yet he wants his words to be something more and so he takes them as the substitute for substance. 

Sunday, January 23, 2011

From the Stray Thought Bin - "The Art of Sanity"

Sanity, adequate adjustment to life facts (including ones' own potential), seems like an art that requires taking unceasing aim at a perpetually moving target. Still, it's important to aim. 

Thursday, January 20, 2011

From the Stray Thought Bin - "Mastering Our Psycho-Logical Destinies"

In everyday life, most of us are 'slaves' to the makers of our vocabularies, while the power to examine our assumptions and revise them (the postulational attitude) provides a way to master our psycho-logical destinies.