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"I am different every day - and when I am eighty, I shall still be experimenting and changing. Work that I have done no longer concerns me - it is past. I have too much on hand in life itself..." ~Khalil Gibran

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Arts & Humanities > Philosophical Concepts The philosophy of self-awareness: 7 of 21

There are all sorts of ideas, notions, and recommendations about what a person should be and should not be, what is favored and frowned upon, what should be cultivated and discarded. But this entire condition is based on imposing characteristics on a mental phantom the sense of a separate self that has to be a "better person...
Religion & Spirituality > Hinduism Hindu fundamentals: Advaita vendanta: 1 of 2

Everyday the body rests, and you think you've gone into a deep sleep, all the problems, all the pleasures, all the pains, all your so called goals and plans, everyone you're attached to or think you want to avoid, generally everything that appears to be of concern to you during the body's waking hours, generally everything t...
Society & Lifestyle > Social Values & Norms Negativity: A worldwide pandemic: 13 of 25

While I understand the value of being thorough in the work that we do, while I value the one-pointed attention we can give to our work, while I understand the desire to put our best ideas into what we do, I fail to understand where the belief and practice that self-doubt, self-minimizing, and self-criticism contribute to the...
Health & Fitness > Emotional Health & Wellbeing Exploring The Guilt Complex: 3 of 5

The Truth About Guilt Guilt is a useless emotion. It interferes with learning and is based on something completely false. I'm not talking about the process where you recognize a mistake and learn from it, this benefits you. But the thought-forms of guilt do more to interfere with your learning from mistakes, because what you...
Religion & Spirituality > Thoughts on God Determining the one true god: 12 of 18

Empty the Mind to Determine the Existence of the one true God Our entire educational, social, and global culture is concept-driven. Everything is categorized, differentiated, labeled, compared to some other thing, and so on. There is an idea, a label, for everything. So in a social structure wherein concepts, mental images, ...
Religion & Spirituality > Self-Awareness & Realization Know thyself: Understanding your purpose: 8 of 10

We each operate within belief systems that are in no way exactly the same, even if there exist some similarities between them. We each perceive reality through different lenses. In a way, it is as if we each walk around within our own bubbles, colored by our past experiences and the understandings and conclusions we've made ...
Religion & Spirituality > Heaven, Hell & Afterlife Definitions of hell: 48 of 55

A Hell of a Lie What do we know of hell while we're here alive with our hearts beating and our breath weaving in and out of our bodies? What could we know but the stories and images we've been so readily given? And how can we believe in the ideas other's have given us? What can you accurately know of an afterlife, while you'...
Arts & Humanities > Philosophical Concepts Why we dwell on the past: 67 of 74

You can say that we attach to the past, to history and past events, as we do because it's what we know. We treasure the past, be it pleasant or painful, for there is little in the world that teaches us to do otherwise. Everything in this world celebrates the past and our memories of it. We study history, write about it, and ...