Inner Compass
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What you see here is a page of my hypertext book Me, Looking for Meaning. Initially empty, it will slowly be filled with thoughts, notes, and quotes. One day, I will use them to write a coherent entry, similar to these completed pages. See this post to better understand my creative process. Thank you for your interest and patience! :)
What you see here is a page of my hypertext book Me, Looking for Meaning. Initially empty, it will slowly be filled with thoughts, notes, and quotes. One day, I will use them to write a coherent entry, similar to these completed pages. See this post to better understand my creative process. Thank you for your interest and patience! :)
Inner compass is what allows us to discover our true purpose. Paradoxically, it can also tell us when we need to forget about our purpose and just enjoy our existence. Following our inner compass is a way of understanding ourselves, which is a form of self-empathy.
Following the inner compass may mean allowing ourselves not to form opinions right away, which in the age of social networks seems especially counterproductive but is especially crucial.
"what a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, and ever rarer, thing that might be worth saying" (quote found here https://medium.com/@the_jennitaur/how-to-do-nothing-57e100f59bbb)
dharma
I have always been very sensitive to suffering. I wanted to understand why people hurt each other, and how it can be avoided. I have focused on suffering and discomfort that people bring to each other. Most suffering and discomfort that people experience is related to the way people are, to their relationships. So I wanted to understand people and their relationships. And I was always looking for complex explanations (not just good guys vs. bad guys).
The Great Work of Your Life:
self-reflection based on reading this book
I am an introvert and observer of other people’s interactions
From Great Work of Your Life:
“Every base is covered somehow, but only if everyone acts on their authentic calling. Only if everyone holds together her part of the net. “ society’s falling apart t because this is not happening
Billy Elliot: "When I dance, I disappear."
Janis Joplin: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/10zDcYHdOag
behind order (culture), there is chaos (universe), but maybe behind that chaos there is another level of order, a more authentic one?
From Cope, end of chapter about Harriet Tubman« She believed that any person who sought to could be guided by God’s hand—just as she had been. “Each and every person has the light of God within,” she said.»
I want every person, and every living being, to feel loved, connected, safe. Is it even possible ? Is it possible for life not yo be a struggle for survival when some win and others lose? Looking at the nature, it does feel impossible. IF lion it be he fed, antilope has to be dead.
Inner compass: following your inner compass might be the most important skill of them all. Too many people do what they think they are supposed to do. When we are small, we have the inner compass that helps us. Choose what we want to do. But often grown-ups tell kids that they’re in our compass is wrong. the kids are told that they are supposed to do something else from what they want to do. The inner compass is like a little voice in your head telling you what you like and what you don’t like. If we don’t listen to our encompass and don’t value what it is saying after a while, we stop hearing it. We lose the ability to understand who we are and what we really want to do and to be. I think that too many problems in the world stand from the fact that many people if not most people are not taught to listen to their inner compass. When you talk to a customer service person and you think oh they are lazy. Oh, they don’t care you think of them as as a stupid person as an inferior person. but probably what happened to them is that they were not taught to listen to their in encompass and they ended up choosing a job that they did not really care about. So they don’t care about their job. They don’t care what they’re doing if they’re helping you or not, and then both you and them are unsatisfied. This is tricky because parents who do not teach their kids to listen to their in a compass. I often guided by the best intentions. They want their kids to survive in a tough world. They want their kids to find a job that will allow them to earn enough money for good leaving. But then this message is backfire and the kids get a job that’s allowed them to earn enough money, but they are never truly happy doing those jobs because these jobs are not what they’re really their encompass would have told them to do and they will never know till the end of their life. What’s the problem. And they will also spread this to their own kids and two kids around them. This idea that, it’s more important to do things that grow other people around you tell you are important and they will not tell them about the importance of listening to their inner compass. Connect this to Cope’s dharma. People are not taught to be in touch with themselves and through themselves with something greater that they are. It’s the same problem that many point out that some people are not taught to ve in touch with their feelings.
My inner compass is my faith my most basic belief that guides my actions. This is the source of my dharma I think that my basic believe is the faith in human connection in the importance of human connection and in the possibility of human connection. But how from this I get to exploring such big topics as truth, power, and meanings. These are very abstract philosophical topics, but I need to explore them in order to satisfy my faith in the importance of human connection. How does it work well I see the problems that people are experiencing in society is because people are often disconnected from each other and from themselves, then somebody responds. No, the real root of the problems is the bad people who caused society his problems, or do not want them to change then I need to explore what is bad people and good people. I need to understand the meaning behind good and bad. I need to explore the concept of power because when we say that people in power cause problems or when we just say that somebody causes a problems where is human that this person has a power to cause the problem and he has a power to fix the problem so when we blame somebody for not fixing a problem, it’s about power and blame is a major problem on our route to connect connection to each other and ourselves because we can also blame ourselves and when somebody says well you’re wrong here things are things are not like that. Some people are just strong. Some people are just doing wrong things and you need to understand what is right and follow, those values then I have to explore what is wrong and what is right what is true etc. so this is how I get to all those complicated abstract difficult topics.
I want to understand myself and help myself. I want to understand people and help people.
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Following the inner compass may mean allowing ourselves not to form opinions right away, which in the age of social networks seems especially counterproductive but is especially crucial.
"what a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, and ever rarer, thing that might be worth saying" (quote found here https://medium.com/@the_jennitaur/how-to-do-nothing-57e100f59bbb)
dharma
I have always been very sensitive to suffering. I wanted to understand why people hurt each other, and how it can be avoided. I have focused on suffering and discomfort that people bring to each other. Most suffering and discomfort that people experience is related to the way people are, to their relationships. So I wanted to understand people and their relationships. And I was always looking for complex explanations (not just good guys vs. bad guys).
The Great Work of Your Life:
self-reflection based on reading this book
- My goal: I want people to understand the value of solving social problems through radical empathy
- Understanding my doubts as part of learning: “I was fascinated to hear Lonny describe how, often, just when he thought he had reached a solid ground of understanding, some new insight would pull the ground out from under him—and he’d feel disoriented, as if everything he thought he knew was dropping away. In these times, Lonny would doubt himself: Am I hypnotizing myself into believing a complex metaphysic that is actually baseless? he wondered… Then, inevitably, a bigger picture would emerge—more complete than before—and Lonny would gain higher ground in his practice.”
- I have also always was fascinated by complexity of human relationships (things are not black and white, lots of paradoxes - not all the narratives just show good guys vs bad guys, some do hint at the complexity)
- Let desire give birth to aspiration. 2. When difficulties arise, see them as your dharma. 3. Turn the wound into light.
- how my writing and poesy are connected : what I cannot say in prose, I write in poetry, what I cannot say in a poem, I write in prose
I am an introvert and observer of other people’s interactions
From Great Work of Your Life:
“Every base is covered somehow, but only if everyone acts on their authentic calling. Only if everyone holds together her part of the net. “ society’s falling apart t because this is not happening
Billy Elliot: "When I dance, I disappear."
Janis Joplin: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/10zDcYHdOag
behind order (culture), there is chaos (universe), but maybe behind that chaos there is another level of order, a more authentic one?
From Cope, end of chapter about Harriet Tubman« She believed that any person who sought to could be guided by God’s hand—just as she had been. “Each and every person has the light of God within,” she said.»
I want every person, and every living being, to feel loved, connected, safe. Is it even possible ? Is it possible for life not yo be a struggle for survival when some win and others lose? Looking at the nature, it does feel impossible. IF lion it be he fed, antilope has to be dead.
Inner compass: following your inner compass might be the most important skill of them all. Too many people do what they think they are supposed to do. When we are small, we have the inner compass that helps us. Choose what we want to do. But often grown-ups tell kids that they’re in our compass is wrong. the kids are told that they are supposed to do something else from what they want to do. The inner compass is like a little voice in your head telling you what you like and what you don’t like. If we don’t listen to our encompass and don’t value what it is saying after a while, we stop hearing it. We lose the ability to understand who we are and what we really want to do and to be. I think that too many problems in the world stand from the fact that many people if not most people are not taught to listen to their inner compass. When you talk to a customer service person and you think oh they are lazy. Oh, they don’t care you think of them as as a stupid person as an inferior person. but probably what happened to them is that they were not taught to listen to their in encompass and they ended up choosing a job that they did not really care about. So they don’t care about their job. They don’t care what they’re doing if they’re helping you or not, and then both you and them are unsatisfied. This is tricky because parents who do not teach their kids to listen to their in a compass. I often guided by the best intentions. They want their kids to survive in a tough world. They want their kids to find a job that will allow them to earn enough money for good leaving. But then this message is backfire and the kids get a job that’s allowed them to earn enough money, but they are never truly happy doing those jobs because these jobs are not what they’re really their encompass would have told them to do and they will never know till the end of their life. What’s the problem. And they will also spread this to their own kids and two kids around them. This idea that, it’s more important to do things that grow other people around you tell you are important and they will not tell them about the importance of listening to their inner compass. Connect this to Cope’s dharma. People are not taught to be in touch with themselves and through themselves with something greater that they are. It’s the same problem that many point out that some people are not taught to ve in touch with their feelings.
My inner compass is my faith my most basic belief that guides my actions. This is the source of my dharma I think that my basic believe is the faith in human connection in the importance of human connection and in the possibility of human connection. But how from this I get to exploring such big topics as truth, power, and meanings. These are very abstract philosophical topics, but I need to explore them in order to satisfy my faith in the importance of human connection. How does it work well I see the problems that people are experiencing in society is because people are often disconnected from each other and from themselves, then somebody responds. No, the real root of the problems is the bad people who caused society his problems, or do not want them to change then I need to explore what is bad people and good people. I need to understand the meaning behind good and bad. I need to explore the concept of power because when we say that people in power cause problems or when we just say that somebody causes a problems where is human that this person has a power to cause the problem and he has a power to fix the problem so when we blame somebody for not fixing a problem, it’s about power and blame is a major problem on our route to connect connection to each other and ourselves because we can also blame ourselves and when somebody says well you’re wrong here things are things are not like that. Some people are just strong. Some people are just doing wrong things and you need to understand what is right and follow, those values then I have to explore what is wrong and what is right what is true etc. so this is how I get to all those complicated abstract difficult topics.
I want to understand myself and help myself. I want to understand people and help people.
About this project: Start page