“The greatest danger, that of losing one’s own self, may pass off quietly as if it were nothing; every other loss, that of an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc., is sure to be noticed.”
- Soren Kierkegaard
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I was raised Mormon, but now I'm a hippie Quaker living in the OC with my two teenage kids: CatGirl & GameBoy.
Twenty-six years ago I lost my right leg to bone cancer. Awhile ago I had an antibiotic-resistant infection in my lower left leg, and now I'm healing from surgery and feeling better every day.
I like gardening, making history, outrigger canoeing, trying new things, and my afternoon cup of tea.
"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."
~Christopher Robin, Pooh's Grand Adventure
Contact: remyjATucidotedu
Twenty-six years ago I lost my right leg to bone cancer. Awhile ago I had an antibiotic-resistant infection in my lower left leg, and now I'm healing from surgery and feeling better every day.
I like gardening, making history, outrigger canoeing, trying new things, and my afternoon cup of tea.
"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."
~Christopher Robin, Pooh's Grand Adventure
Contact: remyjATucidotedu
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3 comments:
Oh, I love it. Thank you.
How come I never found anything that cool in Kierkegaard? Maybe I was too young when I read him.
That's a problem with formal education. You can read all the Great Books and Great Thinkers and talk about and be told what's important about them, but until you have lived some, you're going to miss a lot.
I read Kierkegaard when I was 16. How many 16-year-olds really experience loss of self? And of those that do, how many are self-aware enough to realize it, let alone process it?
Sara:
I absolutely agree that the thoughts of the Greats are wasted on those who study them as young people! This is one reason that I believe in lifelong education! We all should be picking up Great Books all the time. :)
Self-confession: I haven't actually read Kierkegaard....just found this quote while blog-hopping and realized that it fit me & my mood oh-so-well.
For my PhD Exams I went back and re-read Great American Authors like Steinbeck, Emerson, Dreiser, Twain, Whitman and such. Wow, I fell in love with them all over again--and much more profoundly than when I first encountered them in 10th grade...
I found the quote strange for a moment, because I have always thought of "losing myself" as something positive - like when I played the violin and I would lose myself in the music, or when I am working and I lose myself in the task. When I think about losing one's self, I usually think of being fully and totally engaged in the moment.
That's a completely different thing then losing your identity or forgetting who you really are, which is what I think this is talking about it.
I love Walt Whitman's poetry. :-)
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