I regularly come across works by poets and philosophers about how dedication to a cause is crucial to whether or not one will achieve goals. In some works the message is easy to understand, in others it is more hidden and only becomes apparent upon closer examination. Henry Charles Bukowski was a German-American writer,...
Many philosophers have grappled with the question of who or what we actually are as human beings. By this, very few mean whether we are hairless descendants of apes or the creation of a god, but what makes us human. Alan Watts has presented his views in various lectures. This article is about how...
In a letter to a friend, Seneca wrote that death is not an event somewhere in the future. Rather, one should see death in the now, in the permanent progression of time. One could also say that every moment that passes dies in that very moment. "The last hour in which we cease to exist brings....
To learn something new in life - be it playing an instrument, a new sport, or anything else - you have to be willing to be a fool. In hardly any case, you're good at something you've never done before. If you're not willing to be bad at something to begin with,...
Often when we are faced with a task that we are afraid of, or that seems unsolvable, we chicken out. The problem, however, is that we can't outgrow ourselves unless we set ourselves tasks that exceed our current competencies. As mentioned in my post, "A Journey of a Thousand Miles..."...
I encourage all of us, regardless of our beliefs, to question the basic narratives of our world, to connect past developments to current problems, and not to be afraid of controversial issues. ' Dr. Yuval Noah Harari Dr. Yuval Noah Harari is a professor of history, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The quote that appears in this post...
Albert Camus was one of the most famous philosophers of existentialism. Existentialism is a philosophical current that found many followers in the middle of the 20th century. In existentialism, the existence of man is the central point. Above all, the existence of man, marked by suffering, which only gains meaning through one's own actions. "To live is to act"...
Most people have experienced situations in the course of life that one found intolerable. Depending on the situation, one can come to the conclusion that it was a good reason to die -or to live. These different ways of looking at things preoccupied the French philosopher, author and journalist Albert Camus and ultimately led to the following...
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people are most afraid of. - Fyodor Dostoevsky Daring new things can be something to be afraid of. After all, you don't know if you will succeed or fail miserably. However, if you don't dare, you can....
The core of your satisfaction and well-being is that life goes as you imagine it. This sounds logical, but it also means that if life does not go as you imagine, you will be unhappy. That's kind of the whole magic. If life goes the way you want it to go....
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