by The New Agora | Mar 11, 2022 | Gary Z McGee, The New Now
www.self-inflictedphilosophy.com Humble Thyself: The Core Axiom of Self-inflicted Philosophy By Gary Z McGee “To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.” ~Dostoevsky On a long enough timeline everything is stardust....
by The New Agora | Mar 2, 2022 | Gary Z McGee
www.self-inflictedphilosophy.com The Archetype of the Trickster Sage By Gary Z McGee “The sage battles his own ego; the fool battles everyone else’s.” ~Sufi Proverb The trickster sage battles both his ego AND everyone else’s. He’s a double-edged...
by The New Agora | Feb 26, 2022 | Gary Z McGee
www.self-inflictedphilosophy.com The Will to Humor Vs. The Will to Power By Gary Z McGee “Life is a matter of oscillation. Life is vibration. The question is: how are you going to interpret that. Is it tremble, tremble, tremble; or is it laugh, laugh,...
by The New Agora | Jan 27, 2022 | Gary Z McGee, The New Agora
www.self-inflictedphilosophy.com The Pleasure of Pointlessness By Gary Z McGee “Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.” ~James Joyce What’s the point of it all? Why is there something...
by The New Agora | Jan 13, 2022 | Gary Z McGee, The New Agora
www.self-inflictedphilosophy.com Amor Fati and Radical Acceptance By Gary Z McGee “Amor fati is a sentiment of willingness to accept at last the way things have gone and will go; to love a life that tries in almost every moment to make you hate it and...