The second book by the famous master of psychotherapy, dedicated to the truly most important art for a person - the art of being alive. The art of meeting and parting, working, traveling, creating and listening, winning and giving up, without feeling like either a victim of life or its boss. The author's friends and students strongly recommend this book to everyone who knowingly, voluntarily, by luck, or through carelessness or oversight came across her.

But from the inside of life, everything looks different. At least not so symmetrically. From the inside, my life is an unmanageable, not very consistent and at times very sudden set of dates. These are events and meetings, ideas and relationships, experiences and awareness... Between two dashes. Between these dashes you can do a lot. And you can even have time to write down some things.

This book contains the voices of different people. They talked about their confusion, their sadness, their embarrassment. There was also joy, surprise, irony, resentment, anger, annoyance, regret, gratitude, tenderness... And much more that can be heard if you listen. They spoke without knowing each other. Sometimes even without fully knowing yourself. But if you place their words and intonations side by side, combine them in one space, as musical scores are combined, then it will become obvious that they are addressing each other. Listen.

Philosophy is a meeting and conversation between thinking people who are interested in the unknown , instead of being afraid of it. These people are united solely by their love for the mystery of thinking and awareness, while other people avoid these dubious pleasures, or, if necessary, use them for everyday purposes.

Besides this love, thinking people have nothing in common.

Philosophy is an attempt to answer the question: where do I live, why and where? Do I have a mission, and is it where my happiness is... And these are not answers, but answers. Answers are the antidote to questions. And philosophy is the answer.

Philosophy is asymmetrical, like life. The symmetrical completed form is emotionless and motionless. Sensibility and movement arise as a reaction to the incompleteness of processes in some form.

Incompleteness is what is recognized as life.

A living cell is also asymmetrical. That's why she likes perfect and symmetrical crystals so much, that's why she admires them so much.

By the way, nothing like that is known about crystals.

In order not to worry, people fight, steal or believe. Sometimes it’s important for me to believe, but mostly I like to worry. There are different types of anxiety. The most natural of them are texts.