Sounds good to me Marsha ... it is the lack of awareness that causes the burring I referred to.
PS I don't do definitions, as you know ... as usual, you got the "essence" of what I meant ;-) Ian On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 10:07 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings Ian, > > Isn't the difference between game-living and game-playing awareness? And > what is the definition of 'psychological essence'? > > > Marsha > > > At 03:20 AM 3/7/2009, you wrote: >> >> Hi Mark, >> >> That is the psychological essence of "game" - guessing the game of >> "others" whilst being concerned about how "they" interpret what you >> reveal about "your" game. The game of life. >> >> Of course playing (recreational) games is different - rehearsals and >> scene settings for the real living thing. The distinction between >> game-playing and game-living can be quite blurred, but the root of >> recreation is no coincidence - re/create. >> >> Regards >> Ian >> >> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 6:21 PM, markhsmit <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi Marsha, >> > >> > I like the ones by RD Laing in Knots: >> > >> > They are playing a game. They are playing at not >> > playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I >> > shall break the rules and they will punish me. >> > I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Willblake2 >> > >> > On Mar 2, 2009, at 6:38:36 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Here are some interesting quotes. >> > >> > ------------- >> > >> > "You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play >> > better than anyone else." >> > (Albert Einstein) >> > >> > "The true object of all human life is play." >> > (G. K. Chesterton) >> > >> > "If I get to pick what I want to do, then it's play...if someone else >> > tells me that I have to do it, then it's work." >> > (Patricia Nourot) >> > >> > "Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will >> > assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the >> > play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the >> > ordinary." >> > (Cecil Beaton) >> > >> > "What we play is life." >> > (Louis Armstrong) >> > >> > "Life must be lived as play." >> > (Plato) >> > >> > "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we >> > stop playing." >> > (George Bernard Shaw) >> > >> > "Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a >> > child at play." >> > (Heraclitus) >> > >> > "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a >> > year of conversation." >> > (Plato) >> > >> > "Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel." >> > (Jimi Hendrix ) >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > .. >> > _____________ >> > >> > Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the >> > stars.......... >> > .. >> > .. >> > >> > Moq_Discuss mailing list >> > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >> > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org >> > Archives: >> > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ >> > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ >> > >> > >> > Moq_Discuss mailing list >> > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >> > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org >> > Archives: >> > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ >> > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ >> > >> Moq_Discuss mailing list >> Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org >> Archives: >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ >> http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > > . > _____________ > > Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars......... > . > . > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
