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Need for Attention 2: Self-Love

Attention needs to feel safe. If as a child our attention from our primary caregivers did not feel safe, then…

The Need For Attention – Part 1

Attention is something we all crave in different forms. At times when we do not have enough, it seems to creep up on us that we need to be seen. Our need for attention goes beyond being seen. Is it simply a nice feeling or is it a bit familiar in that it ‘feels like home’?

Philosophy / Psychology

Emotions, Feelings and Society

We ascribe a certain energy to emotions, channeling them into our work, into our ambitions. But do we express them?

Eastern Philosophy / Psychology / Spirituality

The Joy of Nothing to Compare

The need to compare inherently comes from a desire to evaluate or measure our self-worth. It is not in any way conducive to our self-worth. If you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree then it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.

Eastern Philosophy / Lifestyle / Philosophy / Psychology / Spirituality / Travel / Uncategorized

The Present of Presence

It seems that the only way to get more out of any experience is to let go of the desire to get anything out of it at all. Suddenly the moment is thrown wide open, free of all our directing and narrowing that comes from our preexisting expectations imposed on it.

Eastern Philosophy / Lifestyle / Psychology / Spirituality / Travel / Western Philosophy

The Object of our Want

The nature of desire is something we all face. Whether in moments of lack or abundance there is something to…

A mélange of Eastern and Western Philosophies

Why do we find the essential questions of life troubling? Not because they’re hard to answer but because they expose parts of ourselves that we’d rather keep hidden. Our assumptions guide our actions but can we do anything about them? Who was it that made them?

Philosophy offers questions without answers. In this, there’s a beauty because we get to find our own answers. In a society that has forsaken wisdom for knowledge, it is time to make our way back. For the sake of our future generations, we need to learn from the past to create the world we want and so urgently need.

Spirituality and Psychology have traditionally not been divorced from philosophy.
This is an attempt to reunite them.