At the core of this maxim is an all-encompassing effort to make yourself the person your essence urges you to be, to listen to the great voice inside and become an active creator in reality.
Reading time: 10 mins
Category Archives: Spirit
When You Trust The Cosmos, The Tao Helps You Out
The impartial cosmos cannot be controlled, yet we can arrange action to flow with it. When one follows the path of the Tao they attain awareness of the enduring interrelatedness of everything. When one doesn’t hubris hones attention to the self.
Reading time: 8 mins
Once The Beacon of Curiosity is Lit it Can Never Be Extinguished
As Plato’s allegory shows it’s not always easy to be in the sunshine while others linger in shadows, but if one is able to accept their auspicious burden as a right of passage their strain will build a bulbous muscle, an intellect pulsating with lust for life.
Reading time: 7 mins
The Illusion of The “I”
The human animal is a complex and fascinating creature. Being able to place ourselves in the past and future closely aligns our identity with the “I”, yet at its core there is no independent “I” other than a construct established by mind and environment.
Reading time: 8 mins
Does Life’s Meaning Reside in Discovering Our Own Purpose?
The unknown can be frightening. Being offered an all-encompassing solution is comforting but it also limits idiosyncratic thought. It may be daunting to contemplate the onus to define our own existence, however isn’t more alarming to believe we all must live according to the same objective?
Reading Time: 6 mins
The Sweet Irony of Life – We All Live to Die
As we are consummated our DNA signs a contract, ‘In order for this being to have life, they must inevitably be sacrificed in death’. Although there are severe implications termed in the contract, it can also be helpful to appreciate life’s brevity and commit to making it more than bourgeois.
Reading time: 4 mins
The Contemporary Human 