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On Escaping From the News

Homepage, Philosophy, PsychologyMarch 21, 20255KViews 1Like 0Comments

If we analyze the matter, we will discover that current affairs in different parts of the world have no effect on our everyday life. Whether we read the news today or not, nothing will change in our daily routine. Nothing will change in our real life.

Lessons from a Stray Dog

Philosophy, Practical Philosophy, Psychology, WhimsicalFebruary 23, 20255KViews 0Likes 0Comments

An unexpected friendship with a stray dog leads to valuable life lessons of love, loyalty, and independence.

The Little Things

Homepage, Philosophy, Practical Philosophy, PsychologyFebruary 18, 20255KViews 0Likes 0Comments

The little things in one’s behavior are more important than the big ones. Not “equally important,” as many would easily agree to. But more. It took me years to understand why. I was searching for a quality inherent in the little things, but as it turns out, it is a quality that is absent that makes…

Gone Forever. Gone.

Homepage, Philosophy, Practical Philosophy, PsychologyFebruary 3, 20255KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Death is not only what happens with the arrival of the Grim Reaper. Death permeates our life through these permanent ruptures with our fellow humans. Dying before dying – this is the crux here.

In the Beginning Is the Word

Homepage, Philosophy, PsychologyJanuary 20, 20255KViews 0Likes 0Comments

In the beginning there is always a word. A literal word, which, written or uttered, springs forth a new world, a new universe, a new Creation.

The Uniqueness of Man

Homepage, Philosophy, PsychologyNovember 29, 20245KViews 0Likes 0Comments

You are a unique expression of the Creation. A unique convergence of circumstance. You are one of the latest productions of the universe.

Reconnecting with My Primal Roots

Homepage, Philosophy, PsychologySeptember 26, 20245KViews 5Likes 0Comments

Telegram from the Solomon Islands I’M STILL ALIVE stop LIFE AT 9 RICHTER A DAY stop NOTHING REMAINS STANDING HERE stop EVERYTHING COLLAPSES IN THE STONE AGE stop ONLY TO BE REBUILT FROM STONE stop Malaita Island, Solomon Islands, Kwaio tribe (2007) I sit in a simple hut with the parents. Outside it is pouring rain. Through the hut’s small entrance, which is more like a window…

In Abundance

Homepage, Philosophy, PsychologySeptember 17, 20245KViews 1Like 0Comments

I grew up in Abundance. Not with but in. Abundance was plenty of food on grandma’s large dining table on the veranda of the inner courtyard; it was effusive love from all relatives, neighbors, and friends; it was ceaseless generosity by all; it was the constant receiving of gifts from almost everybody who visited our family; it was too…

Day and Night

PhilosophyJuly 29, 20245KViews 65Likes 0Comments

"“Once in awhile, it is good to meditate on this idea while observing the starlit night sky, to feel how rare in the universe is a living planet with light and sounds, and living entities with eyes and ears and hands and minds.” Published on Gratefulness.org on January 30, 2017.

Nicholas the Greek from Nafplio

PhilosophySeptember 3, 20194KViews 15Likes 0Comments

You are the protagonist of your beloved fairy tales and stories and myths and poems. You are all the heroes you strive to emulate. You are all the lives you collect. Not only are you, but you always have been. You are the forever reappearing Eternal Ragpicker of lives." (From the essay The Eternal Ragpicker) When…

Acting and Reacting

PhilosophyFebruary 9, 20184KViews 35Likes 0Comments

There are two ways of living: by reacting or by acting. Reacting is imitating. Acting is being creative. Reacting is saying “it is in my nature to behave thus.” Acting is saying “I have no fixed nature.” Reacting is succumbing to the biological laws that rule the animal kingdom. Acting is embracing our responsibility and our freedom. Reacting is…

The Rational Foundations of Gratefulness

PhilosophyMay 22, 20175KViews 90Likes 0Comments

“Life is given to us; every moment is given. The only appropriate response therefore is gratefulness.” – Brother David Steindl-Rast, from The Music of Silence “This world appears to us rather as a world of suffering than as a world of the delight of existence. Certainly, that view of the world is an exaggeration, an error of…

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