If you are willing to break up, it is your own task to go out on the other side

It is extremely necessary to be aware of the words, the symbols, the images, which paralyse our thoughts.

To be aware of them and find out, whether you can reach beyond them, is of great importance, if you shall live in a creative way, without stagnating.

Therefore the philosophical counselor must gently bring the guest forward to realize, that language, and therewith the guest´s images of life, one´s concepts, opinions, ideas and images, are relative and not absolute. 

One must be brought forward to the realization, that any description not is the described; you can't talk about the truth or the things in themselves.

But what you can do is to point at the door, the voyage of discovery, the philosophical life-practice.

And if the guest is willing to break up, to move towards that door, then it becomes his own task to go out on the other side.

Therefore Plato also chose to let his dialogues stop here.

The authentic person is a person who has his identity in a presence, and who has a philosophical life-practice

Philosophical counseling will be oriented towards an understanding of the images of life, which are lying under the person´s conception and way of living.

So, it is some images of life, a self-image and a world-image, which is based on time and its images as such - that is: both personal, collective and universal images - which are lying under, or which are a thought-created presumption for the person´s feelings and motivations, and which manifest themselves in a certain image of life and way of living.

To have his identity in an absence means that the person is identified with his perspective on himself and the world, and this is an expression of an un-authentic person; that is: the person who has some images of life, but no philosophical life-practice.

The authentic person is the person who has his identity in a presence, and who has a philosophical life-practice.

In order to be able to discover something, you must observe yourself

In order to be able to discover something, you must observe yourself, but not on the bases of a certain image of life, or a certain thought-system, nor from some certain religious viewpoint.

You must completely reject all this, so that the mind is free and is able to be aware of itself in relation with the society, in relation with ourselves, with our families, with our neighbour.

When you are the situations present it is possible to reach beyond them.

You must go from just having some images of life, to having a philosophical way of life

The question about whether Man can be changed from the ground, is a question which affects the whole of your being; it includes observation, truth, beauty, love.

And these are in philosophy as an art of life something else than words, they are something you directly experience and are in.

The Philosophical Globetrotter must find a way in which you can live so that they become reality.

You must go from just having some images of life, personal or collective, to having a philosophical way of life.

It is herein the philosophical revolution is lying. In that sense the Philosophical Globetrotter is a philosophical rebel.

All our relationships largely build on image-formation

It is clear that a human relationship, which rests on various fate-weaved images of life, never can be peaceful, because these images of life is fictional and you can't live in an abstraction.

And yet this is what we all do: we live in ideas, in theories, in symbols, in conceptions we have created about ourselves and others, and which haven´t anything with reality to do at all.

All our relationships, in respect to property, ideas or people, largely build on this image formation, and therefore there is always conflict. 

That´s the labyrinth with the tortuous path and the shadowside.