The Terror Gurdjieff talked openly about the “terror of the situation”, or as Ernest Becker put it: “To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of…
People who are old enough to remember the pop music scene in the seventies may remember a pathetic song called “That’s the Way God Planned It” by Billy Preston. This…
I happened to see a video where academics were talking about the application of Stoicism in psychology. It was the usual stuff – each of them totally unable to say…
Wouldn’t it be nice if we all helped each other. Well yes it would, and it would also be nice if there was no cancer, no poverty, no one died,…
I made this video several months ago but hesitated to upload it. I’m not in the business of deliberately offending people, so I’ve uploaded it as unlisted. If you have…
Just in case you haven’t noticed, pretty much everything you do is driven by some expectation of a reward. We are all gratification junkies looking for the big hit that…
I suppose I should start by quoting from Spinoza: … all happiness or unhappiness depends solely on the quality of the object to which we are bound by love. Love…
It has taken man around a hundred years to refine the design and production of airplanes. They are incredibly safe and reliable things. The same cannot be said of the…
Epicurus came out with a wonderful one-liner that went like this: “Death means nothing to us, because that which has been broken down into atoms has no sensation and that…
Spinoza had little time for people who sought novelty in superstition and miracles. Both the quotes below are from the Theological Political Treatise, and it is not hard to see…
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