Only the man who drops out of the race to get ahead attains to bliss. Only the man who says to himself, ” I am completely fulfilled where I am – there is no question of getting ahead.
Category Archives: Applied Philosophy
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“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.” -Buddha All of us have […]
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To have the feeling that you have much inside you, there are only two ways. You can get in turne with universe -then you are filled with the whole, with all the flowers and with all the stars.
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Before we dive into what Stoics had to say about stress, let us first understand a little about the school. Stoicism was a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium, in Athens, in the early 3rd century BC. The Hellenistic school supported a philosophy of personal ethics informed by its system of logic […]
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There is a difference between thinking and seeing – and the difference is significant. The west puts great emphasis on thinking. That is why they have named their science of thinking Philosophy. Philosophy means conceptual thinking. We have named the same science darshan.
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We usually believe that we are in the ‘right’ state to receive our friends when we’ve tidied up our sofas, hidden the packs of chips and chocolates, dusted the magazines and the books, fluffed up our cushions, hidden our wrecked diaries under the mattress, put together a three-course meal (a meal I’d never feed myself […]
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I had spent the summer months of 2015 in Leh,inside an Officer’s Flat at the ITBP camp. During my stay there, each night I’d step outside into the numbing cold and find myself lying on the coarse rubble spread all over the earth; my gaze fixed at the star lit sky. As a child, I’d […]
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For a man who has been laughing all his life, death also becomes a matter of laughter. But we cry all our lives. We have been educated in crying. We have been initiated into crying.
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Existential Psychotherapy. Existential Psychotherapy is a dynamic approach which attends to certain ultimate universal concerns that are rooted in an individual’s very existence, explains Irvin D. Yalom. His book, Existential Psychotherapy, addresses four of these concerns, each defined by a spectrum with two ends between which a human is sure to oscillate and feel conflicted […]
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Some one who feels that he is an integral part of this world, and that all its sins and good deeds are attributable to him, is moving towards true religiousness. He has no condemnation for anyone because to condemn the other is to condemn himself.