Wiliam Coles, a teacher of creative writing says of his Students: „Students have trouble writing, after al because they have trouble reading; they have trouble reading because they don’t hear; and they don’t hear because they don‘ take rime to listen. The same difficulty, by the way, is at the root of the trouble they have at being engineers or biologists or English majors or citizens or parents or sons or husbands.“!
To rephrase Cole’s text: People have trouble living because they have trouble thinking; they have trouble thirking because they don’t perceive with their senses; and they don’t perceive with their senses because they don’t interrupt their minds‘ constant reshuffling of worn-out but familiar con-cepts. The same difficulty is at the root of their difficulty in being husbands, wives, fathers, sons, daughters, friends. and lovers. To perceive and conceive anew, rather than reconceive, is the whole challenge. One has to re-open oneself beyond preconception over and over again. It feels like dying. Coming alive always feels like dying, because you are giving up your previous conceptual orientation-your previous personality for a new and uncertain beginning.
Radical Honesty, Blanton S. ??? (folgt)