Comments on: With an Eye to Profundity http://www.iwillnotdie.com/with-an-eye-to-profundity/ Sure you could give up. You could settle. Most people do. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:55:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Dereck http://www.iwillnotdie.com/with-an-eye-to-profundity/comment-page-1/#comment-897 Dereck Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:12:28 +0000 http://www.iwillnotdie.com/with-an-eye-to-profundity/#comment-897 @ Robin - Ah, but I like offbeat. :) @ Robin – Ah, but I like offbeat. :)

]]> By: Dereck http://www.iwillnotdie.com/with-an-eye-to-profundity/comment-page-1/#comment-896 Dereck Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:11:28 +0000 http://www.iwillnotdie.com/with-an-eye-to-profundity/#comment-896 @ Hayden - Well, I wouldn't say that you misread the post. I think you had some very good reasons to think i was referring to you directly. It was my bad. @ Hayden – Well, I wouldn’t say that you misread the post. I think you had some very good reasons to think i was referring to you directly. It was my bad.

]]> By: Robin Easton http://www.iwillnotdie.com/with-an-eye-to-profundity/comment-page-1/#comment-893 Robin Easton Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:27:14 +0000 http://www.iwillnotdie.com/with-an-eye-to-profundity/#comment-893 I read this great post and then went and read the comments which I NEVER do until I write my own comment as I like to do it free of influence. Just my way....I like to find my own path and see what will come out of me of its own accord. ANYWAY, I read your's and Hayden's discourse and laughed and enjoyed THAT as much as the post itself. THEN out of nowhere an unbidden thought went through my head: "There is no box. That's an illusion. We need only realize that we are already without limits." Now, I wasn't even planning on writing THAT, but once it went through my head I had to jot it down.....somewhere LOL and since I was HERE...you became my somewhere to jot it down. What I WAS going to write was the I love the discourse between you and Hayden. It was delightful and I felt happy to see how you both handled it. It totally warmed my heart!! So there you have it!! A very off beat comment. :) :) Thanks for making me laugh, smile and rejoice! Hayden did too. :) I read this great post and then went and read the comments which I NEVER do until I write my own comment as I like to do it free of influence. Just my way….I like to find my own path and see what will come out of me of its own accord.

ANYWAY, I read your’s and Hayden’s discourse and laughed and enjoyed THAT as much as the post itself.

THEN out of nowhere an unbidden thought went through my head: “There is no box. That’s an illusion. We need only realize that we are already without limits.”

Now, I wasn’t even planning on writing THAT, but once it went through my head I had to jot it down…..somewhere LOL and since I was HERE…you became my somewhere to jot it down.

What I WAS going to write was the I love the discourse between you and Hayden. It was delightful and I felt happy to see how you both handled it. It totally warmed my heart!!

So there you have it!! A very off beat comment. :) :)
Thanks for making me laugh, smile and rejoice! Hayden did too. :)

]]> By: Hayden Tompkins http://www.iwillnotdie.com/with-an-eye-to-profundity/comment-page-1/#comment-881 Hayden Tompkins Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:46:57 +0000 http://www.iwillnotdie.com/with-an-eye-to-profundity/#comment-881 LOL, now you're my Seth Godin and I completely misread the post! Good times. LOL, now you’re my Seth Godin and I completely misread the post! Good times.

]]> By: Dereck http://www.iwillnotdie.com/with-an-eye-to-profundity/comment-page-1/#comment-878 Dereck Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:00:53 +0000 http://www.iwillnotdie.com/with-an-eye-to-profundity/#comment-878 @ Hayden - It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out that you were referring to the e-mail exchange regarding my postponement of the bike trip. Wow. I'm slow. Hey, that never even crossed my mind when I wrote this. Now I feel bad, like maybe you thought I was insulting your advice about finding "the box" out of which I ought to begin to think so I can get going on the trip again. How careless of me. Your advice was both sound and completely appreciated. I was sitting on the patio of a local Starbucks the other day, trying to think of the conventional ways people tell themselves to be imaginative, when in fact they often are not. Then the phrase, "Think outside the box" popped in my head and I ran with it. It didn't cross my mind that you might think I was pointing to a deficiency in our conversation on the side. But really, I think you're completely right. @ Hayden – It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out that you were referring to the e-mail exchange regarding my postponement of the bike trip. Wow. I’m slow.

Hey, that never even crossed my mind when I wrote this. Now I feel bad, like maybe you thought I was insulting your advice about finding “the box” out of which I ought to begin to think so I can get going on the trip again.

How careless of me. Your advice was both sound and completely appreciated. I was sitting on the patio of a local Starbucks the other day, trying to think of the conventional ways people tell themselves to be imaginative, when in fact they often are not. Then the phrase, “Think outside the box” popped in my head and I ran with it.

It didn’t cross my mind that you might think I was pointing to a deficiency in our conversation on the side. But really, I think you’re completely right.

]]> By: Dereck http://www.iwillnotdie.com/with-an-eye-to-profundity/comment-page-1/#comment-877 Dereck Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:53:45 +0000 http://www.iwillnotdie.com/with-an-eye-to-profundity/#comment-877 @ Paul - Me thinks we need to resurrect that. @ Paul – Me thinks we need to resurrect that.

]]> By: Dereck http://www.iwillnotdie.com/with-an-eye-to-profundity/comment-page-1/#comment-876 Dereck Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:52:51 +0000 http://www.iwillnotdie.com/with-an-eye-to-profundity/#comment-876 @ Writer Dad - I like that. @ Writer Dad – I like that.

]]> By: Hayden Tompkins http://www.iwillnotdie.com/with-an-eye-to-profundity/comment-page-1/#comment-868 Hayden Tompkins Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:07:29 +0000 http://www.iwillnotdie.com/with-an-eye-to-profundity/#comment-868 "Thinking outside the box is great! Yeah! We’ve been saved!" LOL, Derek. Ok, all I meant was that we get stuck in thinking that things have to be a certain way. You are trying to do the bicycle trip all while not changing much else in your life. It's basically your current life - job + bicycle trip = new life. Before you can 'think outside the box', you have to identify your box. What are your assumptions about the way you want to live? The things you don't even think to question? Once you've figured that out, you can look at whether all or none of those assumptions is valid. Believe me, Derek, I didn't mean "Where's the box?" in a trite way. I am quitting my job in two weeks and I REALLY want something different. But I have to identify my box first. “Thinking outside the box is great! Yeah! We’ve been saved!”

LOL, Derek. Ok, all I meant was that we get stuck in thinking that things have to be a certain way. You are trying to do the bicycle trip all while not changing much else in your life. It’s basically your current life – job + bicycle trip = new life.

Before you can ‘think outside the box’, you have to identify your box. What are your assumptions about the way you want to live? The things you don’t even think to question?

Once you’ve figured that out, you can look at whether all or none of those assumptions is valid. Believe me, Derek, I didn’t mean “Where’s the box?” in a trite way.

I am quitting my job in two weeks and I REALLY want something different. But I have to identify my box first.

]]> By: Paul http://www.iwillnotdie.com/with-an-eye-to-profundity/comment-page-1/#comment-867 Paul Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:55:28 +0000 http://www.iwillnotdie.com/with-an-eye-to-profundity/#comment-867 Great post. Looking for profundity and finding it are two different things. Unfortunately my muse stopped returning my phone calls sometime around 1998. Great post. Looking for profundity and finding it are two different things. Unfortunately my muse stopped returning my phone calls sometime around 1998.

]]> By: Writer Dad http://www.iwillnotdie.com/with-an-eye-to-profundity/comment-page-1/#comment-857 Writer Dad Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:43:06 +0000 http://www.iwillnotdie.com/with-an-eye-to-profundity/#comment-857 Before I started writing, I thought ideas were limited. I realize now, that is ridiculous. Imagination is endless, so long as you feed it. Before I started writing, I thought ideas were limited. I realize now, that is ridiculous. Imagination is endless, so long as you feed it.

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