True freedom is freedom from the self. This type of freedom – which is actually the only type of freedom – is almost entirely unknown to us. We can’t imagine what it might be like. We can’t even begin to imagine, we can’t even get…
Kierkegaard says “when you judge me you negate me.” This is equally true when we judge ourselves! Even though we may not realize it we judge ourselves all of the time, one way or another, and so in doing this (in evaluating ourselves as being…
Who could ever give us permission to be? Whatever could we possibly do to deserve the permission to be, to earn the permission to be? How would we go about making ourselves eligible for a favour of such unthinkable magnitude? Nothing comes free after all,…