by alexdirdara | Feb 12, 2018 | Philosophy
It feel good to help people. It feels good to have loving and supportive friends who you can rely on to grab a drink or talk over something that’s bothering you. It feel good to have a job you enjoy doing and aren’t miserable for 40 hours of your week....
by alexdirdara | Feb 12, 2018 | Start_Here
I had difficulty in trying to write over the last several months. On one hand I felt what I was communicating was helpful to me and those who read it, but in my own journey I began to find the things I was writing about as increasingly vague and unhelpful. I try not...
by alexdirdara | Feb 12, 2018 | Formlessness
“What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero The beautiful thing about water is that it can take any shape, comes in a large variety of forms, and can be both destructive and life-giving. You may have heard parallels...
by alexdirdara | Feb 12, 2018 | Meditation
“The thing about meditation is…you become more and more you.” -David Lynch Meditation is unnatural. Animals don’t do it, human babies certainly don’t do it instinctively. Yet, it is one of the most important practices in the modern world. This...
by alexdirdara | Feb 12, 2018 | Doubt
“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.” ― Seneca What’s really going on when you want to get started on a new task at work, ask someone out, try to get a new job or prepare for a presentation? It seems like whether the task is big or small,...
by alexdirdara | Feb 12, 2018 | Practical_Psychology, Psychology
“It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.” – Herodotus I’m going to open up with a claim that might be difficult to...
by alexdirdara | Feb 12, 2018 | Philosophy, Practical_Psychology
I could put one of dozens clever quotes at the top of this post that would set the mood for some great life lesson I want to talk about, but not today dear reader. “If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.” ...
by alexdirdara | Feb 12, 2018 | Practical_Psychology
Have you ever found that while you’re dealing with a really inspiring person, you feel inspired yourself? As if you become completely absorbed in their reality and you can genuinely feel everything they’re saying is legitimate and potentially even life...
by alexdirdara | Feb 12, 2018 | End Game, Spirituality & Religion
“A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.” – Alan Watts What is it that a monk learns after 30 years of meditation? What does enlightenment feel...
by alexdirdara | Feb 12, 2018 | HOW_TO, Practical_Psychology
Once upon a time I had the problem of realizing I was overweight. The initial inspiration aside, the process was fairly simple. For a day or two, I spent a couple of hours researching solutions, and then I spent the next year and a half putting it into practice...
