Very well put, Pat! The way I’ve been thinking along the same lines lately is that “well, if big things are still to come, they better come fast because I’m running out of road.“
This makes me think about the idea that the self does not exist. Maybe the self that we assume is responsible for our desires is just editorializing about choices that it has no control over, but can only struggle to explain. We remain dissatisfied because we think we are answering the call of the self when the real center of our choices is much more mysterious.
The self doesn’t exist in the way that we might think of it as the decider. The self is the tour guide on the PA, not the bus driver. Or, that’s a way to think about it that is sometimes helpful to me.
Very well put, Pat! The way I’ve been thinking along the same lines lately is that “well, if big things are still to come, they better come fast because I’m running out of road.“
This makes me think about the idea that the self does not exist. Maybe the self that we assume is responsible for our desires is just editorializing about choices that it has no control over, but can only struggle to explain. We remain dissatisfied because we think we are answering the call of the self when the real center of our choices is much more mysterious.
The self doesn't exist yet apparently all there is is self.
The self doesn’t exist in the way that we might think of it as the decider. The self is the tour guide on the PA, not the bus driver. Or, that’s a way to think about it that is sometimes helpful to me.
I hate when people make me think. I love when people make me think!