by Charles Norman | Aug 12, 2019 | Song of the Day
To have some suffering is very important. You learn from suffering, and against that background, you can recognize happiness. — Thich Nhat Hanh Suffering directs a man to look within. If it succeeds, then there, within him, is the beginning of his learning....
by Charles Norman | Aug 9, 2019 | Song of the Day
The biggest danger, that of losing oneself, can pass off in the world as quietly as if it were nothing; every other loss, an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. is bound to be noticed. — Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death Kierkegaard argued that an...
by Charles Norman | Aug 7, 2019 | Song of the Day
In popular fiction, a Coming of Age event – accompanied by mild trauma, often of a sexual nature – is required to ferry one across the Rubicon that separates Childhood from Adulthood. I feel somewhat cheated by having never experienced such an episode. One...
by Charles Norman | Aug 6, 2019 | Song of the Day
Married people pledge love for each other throughout eternity. Well, now, that is easy enough but does not mean very much, for if one is finished with time one is probably finished with eternity. — Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or Kierkegaard’s young aesthete...
by Charles Norman | Aug 5, 2019 | Song of the Day
There was a time, eons ago, when I knew with one hundred percent certainty that a particular co-worker would knock on my door every Sunday afternoon. Bill would enter my apartment – invariably shirtless as he was one of those men who simply can’t stand to wear a...
