Acceptance or control

To accept is be satisfied with what you have, without being satisfied. It is a denial of desire, but also a desire to deny yourself something. To accept yourself is an active will to be strong in your self. To be king in yourself, without mastering or controll. To accept your feeling is to act with them, it is not to solve the feelings. To accept others are to meet other without assessment or evaluation. Assessment or evaluation is not part of a helping relationship, it is a will to controll others. Accept and sophrosyne is the ground of becoming good. This is as close as possible to freedom as the opposite of control. To accept is letting go of the desire to control.

Harmony, Balance or Mastery

The world may be understood as paradoxal. A Platonic experience of dualities that does not add up. Human being will always be in the dialectic between change and immutability, between unity and diversity and between equality and differences. The human possibility of being human is to be in balance in the dualities.
The other worldview understand the world as solvable. A hybris experience of conquest. The dualities will be solved. Between natur and human, between words and reality, between human knowledge and action, between life and death. The human possibility to be human is to master the world.

The essence of Metaphor

The essential thoughts are expressed as linguistic metaphors, unfortunately. A metaphor will never exist and get some content if it is not something reel that it is trying to tell us. What it tries to portray is often somewhat abstract, a core we cannot reach. Man is bad at explaining the abstract thoughts with meaning, so we have to resort to pictures. The more abstract a thought is, the more subtle is the language of metaphors. No one has used pictures better than Plato, but no one else has strived to free himself from this use.

Three Sources (Quelle) of knowing

There are three sources of knowing. Your own inner life, other people’s inner life or the external life. All significant knowledge comes from inside. I can sense how my emotions, action and thoughts creates knowledge. Knowledge that might already have become expressed in history. I may have read it in the past, but I did not really know it before it came from me inside. If humanistic science is to be fruitful, it must be grounded in these sources.