Siddhārtha Gautama, known as Buddha, said long ago: “Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.” Therefore it seems that people have always had a problem with being present, but the amount of stimuli and social pressure these days have escalated this problem over the moon. Our modern...
“No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth,” wrote Plato, referring to the words of Socrates during his trial and final fate — death. And although we all know Socrates as the father of philosophy or even wisdom, quoting his famous words: “All I know is that I...
The most misunderstood things in life are often taken for granted because then it’s hard to see that something might be wrong. And that’s the whole idea of Plato’s famous Allegory, where chained prisoners sit in a cave and stare at the shadows on the wall, unable...
How we can achieve more by doing less and not forcing anything
Imagine waking up on a beautiful, sunny morning in some heavenly place on vacation — waking up without an alarm clock and about to go to the beach to sunbathe. But suddenly, you think to yourself: “That’s my last day here, and in two days, I’ll be back to...
