The Introverted Tree

Possibilities

By: theintrovertedtree 4th Feb 20206th Aug 2020

Philosophy, UncategorizedChange, Philosophy, Reality1 Comment

Of the many things that can be, that can exist, only a few do exist. Only a few come to be. The rest of possibilities remain as just that: possibilities. Every time a choice is made, thousands, millions of possibilities disappear. Possibilities that existed, even if only in theory, and will exist no more if…

Fear of pain

By: theintrovertedtree 22nd Oct 202022nd Oct 2020

PsychologyPain, Projections, Soul searching, Suffering, Unconscious, WaitingLeave a Comment

It’s funny how we think we have read something in a book, in a blog, something that touches us, and when we go back to read it again it’s just not there. Maybe there are some words that vaguely resemble what we remembered, but the clear idea we had in our minds is not there,…

In Oz

By: theintrovertedtree 13th Oct 2020

Books, Philosophy, PsychologyBooks, Finding, Searching, Wizard of Oz1 Comment

What would happen if our starlight, the oracle that guides our journey turned out to be… well, fake? Somewhere over the rainbow, way up highThere’s a land that I heard of once in a lullabySomewhere over the rainbow, Skies are blue,And the dreams that you dare to dream, really do come true… Over the Rainbow,…

The smiling stars

By: theintrovertedtree 1st Oct 2020

Books, Philosophy, PsychologyFriendship, Isolation, laughing stars, Others, Projections, Smiling stars, The Little PrinceLeave a Comment

If there was a book in my childhood that I hated with all my guts, that was The Little Prince. Time and time again, some adult would try to push it down my throat with the excuse that it was a beautiful book for children. No it wasn’t. It was obviously a book written for…

A chasm and a bridge

By: theintrovertedtree 1st Sep 2020

PsychologyEgo consciousness, Original sin, Paradise, Tree of Knowledge, UnconsciousLeave a Comment

But look in the mirror for the other one,the other one who walks with you Antonio Machado The original sin. A crime we did not commit and yet we have to atone for. An inherent part of ourselves as humans. The partition of our minds. A few days ago, I read a post about Jung’s…

It is always today

By: theintrovertedtree 21st Aug 202021st Aug 2020

PsychologyAcceptance, Needs, Self love, Unconscious, Wanting3 Comments

It is interesting that “want” (the noun) means “a lack or deficiency of something”. I guess, “to want” would mean to experience this lack or deficiency. To want is to feel a void.

Inevitability

By: theintrovertedtree 11th Aug 2020

Psychologyfate, Inevitability, Purpose, WaitingLeave a Comment

I once read that Bruckner’s symphonies might not be as beautiful as Mahler’s (?), but that they advance relentlessly, inexorably, almost unavoidably. Sometimes, it seems, against their own will. I wondered about the music I like and I realised that all my favourite songs and pieces have something in common: an underlying sense of inevitability.…

As we ride towards the sunset

By: theintrovertedtree 6th Aug 2020

PsychologyDeath, Desert, Soul searching, Unconscious, WaitingLeave a Comment

As we ride towards the sunset, I ask myself whether the end will ever come, whether the sunset is a place, a real place. An end to the rainbow. A place to rest, to die. This thought makes me stop. The others look back at me, no words. I am not ready, I say. Ed…

Pray

By: theintrovertedtree 27th Jul 2020

Philosophy, PsychologyGod, Praying1 Comment

Pray… To ask of a higher power that which we can not achieve by ourselves. To believe such a higher power exists. To believe we can communicate with this higher power. To believe It can listen to us and understand the message we try to convey. Finally, if such high power exists and we can…

The Spinning Top

By: theintrovertedtree 7th Jul 2020

Philosophy, PsychologyBalance, Collective balance, UnconsciousLeave a Comment

After reading Jung’s book on Dreams, I now tend to see all the characters in my dreams as part of me. Even if they look different, played by different “actors”, they are all me. Little parts of me who, together, constitute the whole of me. I had this same feeling when I read Demian (Hesse)…

Trailing behind

By: theintrovertedtree 28th Jun 2020

PhilosophySaying no, Speed of life, Train of life, Waiting2 Comments

Trailing behind. Trailing behind. Trailing behind… but do I actually want to keep the pace? A few years ago, I felt as I had fallen off the train. My train. I still have the mental image in my mind: a meadow with short grass, the empty rails, the sunset, silence. Nothing. I just looked at…