Tag Archives: Hannah Arendt

Of the Fall and Falling and the Fallen

Posted on November 20, 2024 by randomyriad

If we can travel with our eyes wide open in the searing wind and churning flood of human activity, we can at times glimpse hopeful and useful signs as they bubble up from the chaos, but only if we can … Continue reading →

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Tarot Journal #47: Seven of Coins

Posted on August 8, 2022 by randomyriad

Isolation, Assimilation, Integration Thinking, existentially speaking, is a solitary but not a lonely business; solitude is that human situation in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the … Continue reading →

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How to Face an Uncertain Future

Posted on March 20, 2020 by randomyriad

In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble. ― Jane Hirshfield “Even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination, and that such illumination may come less from theories and concepts than from the uncertain, … Continue reading →

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Thoughts About Thinking Our Way Forward

Posted on June 11, 2018 by randomyriad

This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of … Continue reading →

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How to Live in The Time Of Monsters

Posted on November 26, 2017 by randomyriad

 … It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never “radical,” that it is only extreme, and that it possesses neither depth nor any demonic dimension. It can overgrow and lay waste the whole world precisely because it spreads … Continue reading →

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