Our precious principles

By: theintrovertedtree 11th Jan 2022 Inner search, Introversion, PhilosophyPrinciples, RealityLeave a Comment

Moral principles make a society cohesive. They provide a set of basic rules that are necessary for us to thrive as a group. I recently read a piece about the need to stand for our principles. But what does it mean to stand by my principles? It sounds as though they might be confronted; otherwise,…

Open

By: theintrovertedtree 3rd Jan 2022 Inner search, PhilosophyBeing open, BeliefsLeave a Comment

At the start of every new year, I wonder what the year will bring, what new music I will discover. I also wonder what I will think. What thoughts or ideas I will let go of and whether they will be replaced by new ideas. Maybe not. Maybe they will be replaced just with questions.…

Our voice in what we listen to

By: theintrovertedtree 14th Dec 2021 Inner search, Introversion, Psychology, Second half of life, UnconsciousCollective unconscious, Soul searching, Unconscious2 Comments

I remember the mixtapes (actual 20th century tapes) that we crafted for that special someone. They were full of thought, of effort, of emotion, of anticipation, of love. A compilation is a sort of creation. It is not a list, it is more than that. It is a language. A pile of words placed in…

Jump

By: theintrovertedtree 7th Dec 2021 Inner search, Liminality, Psychology, Waiting and HereBeing presentLeave a Comment

We are prisoners, well guests maybe, of the way our bodies and minds are built. We live in a tension of opposites. Logos and Eros, body and mind, good and evil. This is why the cross is one of the main symbols of humankind regardless of religion, the conjunction of opposites. The only way to…

The lightness of music

By: theintrovertedtree 30th Nov 2021 Inner search, Liminality, Philosophy, Second half of life, Waiting and HereBeing present, Soul searching2 Comments

Nothing represents the lightness of being as well as music. If you focus on ‘now’ while listening to music, you only hear one or a few notes, disconnected from the rest. Disconnected from everything else, except for the other sensations experienced during that very second. Music comes and goes, it cannot stop. It only makes…

Unfolding inside out

By: theintrovertedtree 23rd Nov 2021 Inner search, Introversion, Liminality, Psychology, Second half of life, Waiting and HereBeing present, Individuality, Soul searching3 Comments

It’s interesting that the word universe, which integrates all the diversity that exists, etymologically means to pour/transform into one. Humans, at least in the West, have chosen a word that means ‘one’ to define that which contains everything. Poetic and powerful. Who am I? I remember asking myself this question so often. Maybe it is…

Our better world

By: theintrovertedtree 3rd Nov 2021 Inner search, Waiting and HereBeing present, Jung, Soul searching1 Comment

If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a change Michael Jackson, Man in the mirror If someone had told me that I would cite Michael Jackson… A few days ago I heard someone asking what would make the world a better place. I thought about…

Chained to here

By: theintrovertedtree 13th Oct 202113th Oct 2021 Inner search, Introversion, Liminality, Psychology, Waiting and HereBeing present, Mysticism, Sisyphus, Soul searching1 Comment

When I am in a hurry with no reason, all I want to do is to be not-here. As if some other place would close the gap, fill the void. It is difficult to be here, not thinking about what I will need next or where will I have to be in a few minutes.…

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I am an INTJ in the second half of my life. I used to think that the second half of life was a cliché. I used to know things. I don’t want to be as pretentious as to say I know nothing, but I certainly know less than I used to and it is a…

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