Here are three meditations with the themes of patterns, self-care, and cherishing for you to ponder and practice this week.
In The True Believer, published in 1951, Eric Hoffer wrote that "a mass movement, particularly in its active, revivalist phase, appeals not to those intent on bolstering and advancing a cherished self, but to those who crave to be rid of an unwanted self", and who "see their lives as irredeemably spoiled".
It is now time to celebrate my own self and to cherish these years of freedom that I will have with my husband in our empty nest.
7. 'STORYTELLING' -- In two asymmetrical, self-contained vignettes, the master satirist Todd Solondz pokes at our squishy, unexamined pieties and tweaks our cherished self-delusions, aware all the while that he is also probing the ethical quicksand beneath his own feet.
The Buddhist teachings on cherishing others over the self helped me embrace Christian humility.
Mr. Poirier himself cherished self-contradiction.
From 19th-century Horatio Alger tales to modern conservatism's up-by-your-bootstraps-ism, Americans have long cherished self-reliance.
Clashing in the night, the ignorant armies of ideologues endow each other's cherished self-conceptions with the veracity they crave.
Philosophers, psychoanalysts and neuroscientists have all called into question these notions that we cherish – will, self, choice, desire, recollection – but the novel has failed to keep up with these insights.
(Nevertheless, "Slapstick" revives the obnoxious lawyer Norman Mushari from "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater;" Vonnegut's ongoing puppet show is irrepressibly self-cherishing).
According to Gen. Henry Halleck's self-cherishing report to Congress, "General Burnside had only allowed time for transporting his pontoons from Alexandria, whereas first they had to be transported to that place from Berlin," near Harpers Ferry.
