“Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defence against one’s own despised and unwanted feelings. And the fountainhead of all contempt, all discrimination, is the more or less conscious, uncontrolled and secret exercise of power over the child by the adult, which is tolerated by society (except in the case of murder or [...]
After P read my Year End Notes she immediately told me to read the entry called ‘Touch’ in Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony by Deng Ming-Dao. A very useful addition. Thanks P. Our lives cannot be sensed whole. We have to feel our way forward. And what we feel, we have to trust. [...]
Just: Lessons and thoughts from two thousand and eleven “As emotions were the first motives which induced man to speak, his first utterances were tropes (metaphors). Figurative language was the first to be born, proper meanings were the last to be found.” Rousseau, Essay on Origins of Languages – You don’t have to go ‘off [...]