“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...
When I first encountered the cultures of the Orient, I found them interesting but useless in our capitalistic world. And I’m not alone in such opinions, e.g., one of the greatest popularizers of these cultures, Alan Watts, once called their main tool — meditation “the perfect waste of time....
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...
