13. 5 images, 5 texts
- The process is like the universe that bursted from ‘Let there be light’, which makes the designer a deistic god who has the first and the last say but otherwise remains more or less indifferent and leaves the world to itself.
- ‘Because our well-being is tied to understanding, we begin to story our world, we make a story an active process. Our stories are our provisional interpretations of what is going on and what it might mean to us.’ (from ‘A Life of Meaning’ by James Hollis)
- There is a big gap between who we think we are and who we actually are, a tension between self-imposed limitations and the real potential. As we try to define ourselves in narratives, we cling to an illusion that we actually are definable – that our intellect can grasp our nature.
- But what’s more interesting here, is the etymology of the term [eudaimonia], combining ‘eu’ (‘good, well’) with ‘daimõn’ (‘spirit’), which refers to old beliefs that one goes through life accompanied by a spirit impersonating what we would call today ‘the best version of oneself’, and that suggests a collective sense of presence of not quite tangible reality that could be, of potential scenarios encompassing each living being that comes into this world.
- One of the most effective ways to remember a long number, for example, is building a scenario based on a chain of associations with each digit. The more specific, in terms of setting time and place, and the stronger emotions connected with it (both positive and negative), the better.
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