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After a break up what happens to mutual friends

By Martin Goldstein, March 10, 2010 8:57 pm

muddy waterFirst you have to understand my view which is that almost everybody is only semiconscious and to a great degree selfish and mostly self interested.

Relationships are worth nothing without a mutual commitment to growth. But when friends try to deal with a breakup they usually make things worse. They don’t always know what to do so they generally take the easy way out.

More mud… Emotions and egoistic thinking muddy a break up and lead to unclear waters.

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Martin Goldstein creates spiritual adage

By Martin Goldstein, February 28, 2010 9:49 am

Here is a spiritual adage offering

I like it and think it is true. It is also reasonably original.

There is only one way to change because the ego makes change impossible. Keep your heart open for a miracle. Why a miracle? Because miracles are impossible. So allow for the impossible to become possible. From the sayings of Martin Goldstein.

Spiritual Ad Age

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While we wait for the new Rabbi, Jim Carrey does something of value

By Martin Goldstein, February 5, 2010 4:59 am

Jim Carrey Digs Eckhart Tolle

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What do I mean? Am I just a design?

By Martin Goldstein, December 8, 2009 3:43 pm

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Viktor Frankl was a holocaust survivor and psychiatrist. He developed the practice of Logotherapy which is a type of psychoanalysis focusing on a will to meaning as opposed to Nietzsche’s and Adler’s “will to power” or Freud’s “will to pleasure.” Frankl warned against “…affluence, hedonism, and materialism…” in the search for meaning.

These are the principles of Logotherapy:

  • Life has meaning under all circumstances, even the most miserable ones.
  • Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
  • We have inalienable freedom to find meaning.

We can find meaning in life in three different ways:

  1. by creating a work or doing a deed;
  2. by experiencing something or encountering someone;
  3. by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering.

Viktor Frankl was a creator of meaning because he was a survivor of destruction and meaninglessness. He kept himself busy and then he died.

Frankl may have coined the term Sunday Neurosis which is depression caused by an awareness in some people of the emptiness of their lives once the working week has completed.

And now for something completely Monty Python – The Meaning of Life: The Autumn Years

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