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Here’s part one and part two of a mini-series on Frida Kahlo; someone who can still teach us a lot on how to live, through her art and how she herself lived. ***** Just as it’s absurd that no one will ever truly know what’s it like to be you, as you only know the deep thoughts that are inside your own…
Throughout the day… do you think about other people? And spend time thinking of the people in your life you like the most? Even people that influenced your life, you fell in love with, people who made your life better? Well, there’s probably someone out there thinking of you right now. Everything that we cherish and love and fall for…
The Bhavagad Geetha (or the Gita) is a Hindu Scripture in Sanskrit that lays out things to keep in mind and a clear way to live a sweet life. It’s seen a spiritual dictionary and an answer to all life’s problems. It reminds you that you were once nothing, and you will once again at some point nothing, so in…
What is normal to you? And what’s ‘weird’? Anything unknown (and that challenges what you think is normal)? Well that can basically everything. What you see as weird is perfectly normal to someone somewhere. And vice versa. So there is no normal. The problem with trying to be normal is that only you truly know you. No one will ever know all the things…
This is a deep dive into something we want in our personal lives, our relationships (or at least for the other person to understand when we want it), our work lives and why we make money, and just in general. Freedom. And ironically, the less you ‘have’, the less responsibilities and obligations, possessions and commitments, the more freedom you have. —— If…
The beauty of philosophy is not in its esoteric metaphysical theories, its circumlocutory dialogues or its dusty old texts. It’s in its power to help you see how to live life, and truly live and experience its raw, uncensored and potentially mindblowing (or headfucking) moments. Those moments of magic, those moments of true connection, whether to nature, a moment or a person. So although Amélie…
This was contentiously the last thing Frida Kahlo ever painted: But even if it’s not agreed that it undeniably was, it’s pretty much agreed that her inscription was done just days before she died. Despite her challenging life, she perhaps still maintained that love for life, through all life’s good and bad shit (the latter of which she had shitloads).
If someone pisses you off or disappoints you, that is not an issue of them purposely doing things because you are easy to take advantage of, you are stupid or that you don’t deserve respect. People doing things to upset us is decided by us. If someone disappoints us, it’s not that they have done something that directly hurt us, it’s…
Say you’ve been a bad boy or girl and you’ve been sentenced to death. On the day, your time is approaching and you know your life will soon be over. There will be nothing left for you to do, or hope for, or experience or hope to experience one day. You will soon not be living. If you could wish for…
Philosophy is not about making ‘progress’. Figuring out how to live a good life is as confusing now as it was in Ancient Greece over 2,000 years ago. The worries, anxieties and fears people have are basically the same, the only things that have changed are the technology that affects them. The point of philosophy and the pursuit of wisdom…