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Jul 11, 2017 at 12:18 | comment | added | tigrefurry | ... and that confined him to the wheelchair was able to stir up some compassion in me. I have known that before, of course, but I didn't know that he and the doctors fought for his life for many days and that he suffers from complications up to this day. Maybe I am even going to read his biography. | |
Jul 11, 2017 at 12:12 | comment | added | tigrefurry | BTW: A strategy that has worked well for me: Reading up on the personal backgrounds of politicians, top managers and the like. I did this with Wolfgang Schäuble, a politician I particularly disliked. I learned about his origins - Offenburg - not far from Stuttgart where I have spent most of my life. Living in Hamburg now I am often plagued by homesickness and the sole fact that he is a "southerner" living far from his home, like me, somehow makes him appear more "real" as a person to me. Also the assassination attempt he suffered in 1990 from which he nearly died that left him paraplectic... | |
Jul 11, 2017 at 11:55 | comment | added | tigrefurry | It's now a bit more than a week that I've been following your advice and I think I feel better. Thank you! I radically cut down on political/economical/societal news and substituted my main channels of information (Nouvel Observateur, Libération, Spiegel, taz) with magazines covering topics that I am also interested in and that I have, strangely, not read in ages, e.g. the National Geographic or its German/European somehow-equivalent GEO. I live in Hamburg where the G20 summit took place last Friday/Saturday which has been a tough test for me, but I think I mastered it surprisingly well! :-) | |
Jul 3, 2017 at 9:31 | comment | added | Arturia | You're welcome 😊 Wishing you success. All the best | |
Jul 3, 2017 at 4:38 | comment | added | tigrefurry | Still, Dhammadhatu's answer is very valuable for providing me with insight into where I possibly need to further my understanding in the Dhamma and my own concept of my Buddhist believes. Thank you, also, Suminda Sirinath S. Dharmasena, for pointing out to me that I tend to think in categories of good and bad, which I know are "unhealthful" to my spiritual advanced; a fact that I have lost sight of! | |
Jul 3, 2017 at 4:30 | comment | added | tigrefurry | Thank you, Arturia! I've accepted your answer as the "correct" one for providing the most practical and concise advice. | |
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Jul 2, 2017 at 21:20 | history | answered | Arturia | CC BY-SA 3.0 |