We all have them, some more than others of course. However, are they not generally restrictions we self impose as we witness others with way less opportunities than ourselves who are improving their lives if only incrementally…
This is the Daoist concept of ‘doing without doing’, or perhaps from another angle, ‘perfect practice makes perfect’, and consequently ‘muscle memory’…
The first day of the week according to 94% of the world population who follow the International Organization for Standardization (ISO 8601) as the USA, Japan & Canada choose Sunday, go figure?
Survivability! We are all confronted with it consciously or unconsciously and how we deal with it says much about our character…
The right of the individual and or their community/polis/city-state to self governance. Whoops, a contradiction immediately arises; whose rights are supreme, the individual or the State?
Who can say? Did we take birth according to some pre-ordained arrangement or just a completely random occurrence and we have to make the best use of a bad bargain? After all, we all perish sooner or later so do we cash in our chips now or bank them for some supposed future destination?
Perhaps our greatest common desire is the need to belong. A common ideology, a religion or non-religion, a country, a community, a family, a sports team, and on and on. We want and need some identifiable common ground…
Organisms are born, grow, maintain, dwindle and die as simply as that. However, enjoying the unimaginable rarity of human life, is this all that we do, just live and die?
Easy to say, hard to figure out. Physical suffering is obvious, but loneliness, psychological and emotional suffering is not always so apparent…
Kind humans is the understanding. Confucius opined that the vast majority of people who saw a child playing on the edge of a well would immediately find the guardian or lift the child down from the danger…