A Way of Being is a profound and deeply personal collection of essays, written by Rogers in the early 1980s, near the end of his career. The essay that I’ll be talking about today, titled ‘Can Learning Encompass Both Ideas & Feelings’, belongs to this very collection.
Category Archives: Applied Philosophy
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To realise the benefits of self-compassion, we just need to extend a pair of welcoming and supporting arms towards our own self.
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Here are some selected thoughts from the west, to take some weight off that heart of yours and to inspire it!
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What is which is called God? we need to try and understand tht too, because the revolution that must come into the life of a man cannot be deep if there is no presence of God in it.
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So it is a great responsibility – which is not possible for one who believes in God, which is not possible for one who believes in the priest, who believes in the church, because he wants to give his responsibility to other people. the Christian thinks Jesus is the saviour , so it is Jesus’s responsibility – “He will come and deliver us from our misery, from this hell.” Freedom simply makes you absolutely responsible for everything that you are and that you are going to be.
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We might find it more healthy to learn how to lean in to our fears, listen to them, acknowledge them and talk about them instead of treating them like enemies. Instead of imagining the world to be a place where only our praises can be sung, we can think of it as a place where we can reveal a little more of our true selves and that there might not be anything more beautiful than us accepting ourselves for who we are.
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For Sartre, love isn’t about blissful mutual respect between two lovers, resulting in enhancement of freedom of both partners. Far from it, for him, love is conflict.
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In Philosophy Camus compared the human condition to the fate of Sisyphus, condemned to push a rock up a hill again and again for all time. An absurd fate – but Camus insisted Sisyphus could be happy.
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Who doesn’t remember the days when the roads would go deserted in India to see the very first televised version of the Valmiki Ramayana? Well, in this article we revisit some of the life lessons learned from the epic, lessons that prove why the story has stood the test of time and continues to be passed down through generations.
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The doctrine of Pratityasamutpada or Dependent Origination is the foundation of all teachings of the Buddha. It is contained in the Second Noble Truth which gives us the cause of suffering and in the Third Noble Truth which shows the cessation of suffering.