June 17, 2007
- Have been listening a lot to jazz lately. Coltrane, Davis, Thelonious Monk, and Mingus.
- Went to Zary's today. Had a conversation with Shaz and Zary about happiness and money. Shaz told me a lot about Europeans and their attitude toward life. It's different from America. Here most people wrongly see happiness and comfort as being the same thing and as a result are miserable and unfulfilled in their hardly won comfort. They are also constantly comparing themselves to others. Mill is right when he says that "people don't want to be rich; they want to be richer than others."
- Shaz is very smart and not just about medicine and science. After all, medicine is the most humane of all the sciences. A true doctor does not just cure the patient by pills and surgery but also treats the ill person by the healing power of sympathy, kindness, and compassion.
- Finished Cardan's Three Books of Consolation last week and reread it today. It's a short book full of wisdom and insightful observations of life. I like the first and third book better.
- From the works and lives of all the artists and philosophers that I have studied so far I feel closest to Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Sepehri, and most of all van Gogh...
Posted by amin at June 17, 2007 12:20 AM