Staring at the shadows

My "mirroring" other- A book

"The act is 'simple, determinate, universal' but his self wishes to be complex, indeterminate, and unique. The act is 'what can be said of it' but he must never be what can be said of him. He must remain ungraspable, elusive, transcendent"

That is R.D. Laing commenting on Hegel's notion of action in "The Divided Self".

Reminds me of what a professor said to me three years ago- "I can't quite grasp what you're about. It is almost like even in telling me everything, you are concealing something. The only thing I have ever received from you is the sense that I can never really receive the real you"

Genuinely pleased at the accuracy of his interpretation of the countertransference, I smiled and said, "You're right"

"If you were a cat, I would feed you GoCat" *

Easily one of the nicest, non-corny things anyone ever said to me.

* What was actually said was "अगर तुम बिल्ली होती तो मैं तुम्हे 'GoCat' खिलाता"