Читать книгу I WANT TO LIVE, LOVE & BE LOVED. a plea for all of us to find true joy in life and real human connection in peace and freedom онлайн

8 страница из 66

If you live the questions nowPerhaps then, someday far in the future, You will gradually, Without even noticing it, Live your way into the answer.2

If people don’t ask questions they won’t get any answers. If we ask trivial, meaningless questions, we’ll just get a meaningless reply in return. But if we dare to ask the important questions then we are going to get answers that mean something.

2. The Human Psyche

My answers to the questions posed revolve primarily around the human psyche and its development. My basic assumption is that if a person’s psyche can develop in a healthy way, then he or she will succeed in living a good life and will be able to live together in harmony with his or her fellow human beings. If, on the other hand, our human psyche is damaged at an early stage, things do not look good - either for the individual or for entire societies.

WHAT DO I MEAN BY THE ‘PSYCHE’?

The psyche is a way of processing information. All living beings have a psyche tailored specifically to them, whether that being is a tree, an ant, a fish, a cat or a human being. The way it works is basically like this: a living organism takes in information from outside, processes it internally, stores what is important for it, and then translates the processed information, in a way that can then serve its needs, for its intentions, movements and actions.