Death within

By: theintrovertedtree 27th Apr 2021 PhilosophyDeath, Freedom, Human species, Purpose of lifeLeave a Comment

We are used to think of a seed or a child in terms of potential. The seed holds in itself the potential to become a tree. The child holds the potential to become an adult human being. Do we carry death within us? From the moment we are born, from the beginning, an end is…

Soundtrack to a farewell

By: theintrovertedtree 20th Apr 202120th Apr 2021 BooksEphemeral, Farewell, Galadriel, Life cycles, LOTR, Middle Earth, The Lord of the RingsLeave a Comment

To me, nothing symbolises the ephemeral life like music. We can frame light and colour in a photograph, in a painting, but we cannot retain a melody. Music comes to us, touches our soul and leaves. Like those subtle notes in Beethoven’s fifth piano concert. They come, float casually in the air and leave. Like…

The sea that unites all islands

By: theintrovertedtree 6th Apr 2021 PsychologyCollective unconscious, Soul searching, Unconscious1 Comment

I think about the public in a concert or a mob in the street. They act as One. People doing things they would never dare doing if they were alone. For a few moments they stop being individuals with an independent conscience and they become one with the group. They abandon themselves. They surrender to…

The wanderer

By: theintrovertedtree 22nd Mar 2021 PsychologyFinding, Self awareness, Soul searchingLeave a Comment

I am in a train. I can see the outside world changing. Day, night, rain, sun, clouds, trees, unending concrete cities, a mountain. A succession of images outside. Inside, I remain still. From my perspective, I do not move. I am not surprised that Man once thought that the planet where it dwells was the…

In the fall of ‘no’

By: theintrovertedtree 17th Mar 202117th Mar 2021 Philosophy, PsychologyInner path, Searching, Soul searching1 Comment

I don’t know what the title means, it just came to my mind. ‘Yes’ seems so invasive, so active, so demanding. ‘No’ means to stay with myself, peace, nothingness. ‘Yes’ is outside. ‘No’ is inside. I have as a desktop image a photograph of a path in the forest, full of bluebells (here it is,…

Surrender

By: theintrovertedtree 12th Mar 202112th Mar 2021 Philosophy, PsychologyDeath of the ego, Death of the hero, Soul searching, SurrenderingLeave a Comment

Sometimes we read an apparently harmless line, and we can hear the hammer hitting the nail inside us. ‘Whack!’. Then, silence. The small drop hits the lake and slowly, relentlessly, the wave it produces reaches all the corners of our being. A shiver. Our world has changed. A hard truth we always knew, possibly. I…

A window

By: theintrovertedtree 25th Feb 202125th Feb 2021 Philosophy, PsychologyInbetweenness, Non-action, Reflection, Soul searching, Waiting1 Comment

The music of Philip Glass makes me feel at home. Apparently flat but deeply mysterious. The nuances of repetition. Change in no change. Peaceful and yet disquiet. A tension of opposites. Quiet and yet so loud. An inbetweenness. I often dream of windows through which I get ‘to the other side’, usually some sort of…

On doing nothing

By: theintrovertedtree 16th Feb 2021 Philosophy, PsychologyAcceptance, Doing nothing, Non-action, Self discovery, Soul searching, Stop trying, Waiting2 Comments

I recently finished watching the fourth season of The Crown. Throughout the series, the characters explain how the Crown and the elected Government represent the two sides of power. One side that is changeable, works hands-on, gets dirty and suffers the blame, and another side that is eternal, idealised, immaculate, almost magical. There comes a…

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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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Death within

By: theintrovertedtree 27th Apr 2021

PhilosophyDeath, Freedom, Human species, Purpose of lifeLeave a Comment

Soundtrack to a farewell

By: theintrovertedtree 20th Apr 202120th Apr 2021

BooksEphemeral, Farewell, Galadriel, Life cycles, LOTR, Middle Earth, The Lord of the RingsLeave a Comment

The sea that unites all islands

By: theintrovertedtree 6th Apr 2021

PsychologyCollective unconscious, Soul searching, Unconscious1 Comment

The wanderer

By: theintrovertedtree 22nd Mar 2021

PsychologyFinding, Self awareness, Soul searchingLeave a Comment

In the fall of ‘no’

By: theintrovertedtree 17th Mar 202117th Mar 2021

Philosophy, PsychologyInner path, Searching, Soul searching1 Comment

Surrender

By: theintrovertedtree 12th Mar 202112th Mar 2021

Philosophy, PsychologyDeath of the ego, Death of the hero, Soul searching, SurrenderingLeave a Comment

A window

By: theintrovertedtree 25th Feb 202125th Feb 2021

Philosophy, PsychologyInbetweenness, Non-action, Reflection, Soul searching, Waiting1 Comment

On doing nothing

By: theintrovertedtree 16th Feb 2021

Philosophy, PsychologyAcceptance, Doing nothing, Non-action, Self discovery, Soul searching, Stop trying, Waiting2 Comments

The Void

By: theintrovertedtree 9th Feb 20219th Feb 2021

PsychologyAcceptance, Emptyness, Second half of life, Soul searching, Void6 Comments

And who am I? This question fills me with a kind of emptiness, as if highlighting what’s missing, rather than what’s present. The void. The nothingness that accompanies the lack of answers. The void has been with me since my early childhood, draining energy, will, and light. I tried to escape from it, to bury…

Clones

By: theintrovertedtree 2nd Feb 20219th Feb 2021

Philosophy, PsychologyIndividuality, Life cycles, Personal ideas, Soul searching, Uniqueness6 Comments

Am I unique? Am I not repeating the pattern of so many human beings before me? Haven’t I been ‘me’ before, in another one? Am I the first of my kind? Don’t I make the same mistakes as that who was like me? Won’t another come later who will be like ‘me’, with my same…