Personal History

I\\’m familiar with Andrei

I’m familiar with Andrei Sakharov reputation, but I don’t know his personal history at all. Edward Snowden

When someone becomes transparent,

When someone becomes transparent, then something shines through that person that has nothing to do with the person or any of his or her personal history. What is required is becoming so transparent that the self or ego dissolves. Eckhart Tolle

You identify with your

You identify with your self. You have a personal history. You have commitments. There are things that you want to experience and other things that you want to avoid. Frederick Lenz

In a way, I

In a way, I see my fiction as having moved in that direction – and the characters as dealing simultaneously with their personal history and with the present in which they are trying to make their way. So that the books are simultaneously about public and interior events. And I am having a great time … Read more

We fall in love

We fall in love or stay in love with people who are unsuitable or who no longer love us and, conversely, we feel no love towards people who would be very suitable. Love is involuntary, that’s the problem. Our personal histories prepare us to be attracted to people who unconsciously evoke emotions from our childhood … Read more

I’m always amazed by

I’m always amazed by people like David Simon or the people at The Simpsons or J.K. Rowling who can create dozens and dozens of memorable characters. It seems so effortless, and even people who have just three lines in the shows or in the book have a very distinct personality, and you can feel the … Read more

In the digital universe,

In the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrative is succeeded by our social networking profile – a snapshot of the current moment. The information itself – our social graph of friends and likes – is a product being sold to market researchers in order to better predict and guide our futures. … Read more

Your personal history is

Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music. Dave Grohl

We feel more emotion…

We feel more emotion… before an amateur photograph linked to our own life history than before the work of a Great Photographer, because his domain partakes of art, and the intent of the souvenir-object remains at the lower level of personal history. Chris Marker