Life With A Why: Philosophy of Life
Time and time again, as you look at the world without the constant hum of noise and work and schedule, when you actually look, you find that our greatest treasure has been our mind. You think, and you realize that probably this is what we all come down to. Thought. Life is an exercise in thought, full of questions and answers. Look at life with a why and you’ll find so much worth finding out.
When you look at history, at art, at the distance we’ve covered from handprints on cave walls to the stroke of a brush dipped in oil and paint casting shadows on blank canvas, you realise that all of human essence lies in human thought.
The philosophy of life is to ask and to answer. Philosophy—the love of wisdom—was once the science of which all sciences emerged. It was an enterprise in thinking and thinking was what gave rise to all of human interest and subjects. Today we think mostly about what to cook for dinner and how to manage time so as to sneak in a few minutes of yoga before work. We think about assignments and deadlines and family dinners and we think about doing things if we get the time. We think about thinking if we get the time.
We think fleeting, briefly—a quarter hour before lunch or for a few minutes lying in the dark trying to fall asleep. We touch the surface of the ocean of our own mind with a fascinated hand, and we don’t dive deeper. We don’t have the time.
This is to remind you to think. To nudge you gently under the waves of your vast mind and spend a few minutes underneath. The philosophy of life is to realise that our mind is the most fascinating thing in the world, for the sole reason that it can create. Read below to get answers to questions you didn’t know you had, or even to just let yourself ask questions of the world.
Do you believe in free will? Have you ever thought about the limits of freedom? Do you know about the Ship of Theseus Paradox? There are countless questions. Countless answers. We’ve got all life to figure it out.
Latest Posts
-
Theories Of Time—A Walk Through History
“What, then, is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks me, I do not know.” —Augustine 1995, Book 11 What actually is Time? Is there even something like Time outside of our concept of Time? Then, probably the most fascinating of…
-
Where Do Thoughts Come From?
Where does that random idea, all with the imaginary bulb lighting up on your head come from? Where do thoughts come from? And how? If you’ve never thought about that before, here’s something to set the wheels moving in your mind. The Chicken or the Egg Ever think really hard about what came first: The…
-
How to Fall in Love with Life? A Manifesto
The secret of how to fall in love with life is to not think about it. So once you’ve read this completely, do me a favor and don’t think about it. The moment you start consciously taking steps to be happy, happiness becomes less of a natural state of being and more of a faraway…
-
How to Stop Being Afraid of Everything All the Damn Time
Life is meant to be lived, not feared. It’s easy enough to say that all the experiences you come across in life are meant to teach you something, not just leave you worse than you were. But of course, like everything else, it’s pretty hard actually living by those maxims all the time in your…
-
Life is A Journey And Here’s How to Enjoy It
Life is a journey, not a destination, is a quote attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson, meant to make people realize how life is always about living and never much about having a particular end result in mind and forgetting to focus more on the present. And more often than not, many of us find ourselves…
-
The Essence Of Vedic Thought With Isha Upanishad-A Quick Summary
There is knowledge and wisdom like no other hidden underneath the thousands of pages of metaphor and prose of the ancient Indian texts. The vedas still survive in our words, our thoughts, in how the first word that erupts before any mantra is still aum. the essence of these texts can be found in the…
-
Are We Free? Or Are We In A Cage?
What makes a cage a cage? What are the dimensions? The length and width and height of the container that makes you a prisoner? How high does it need to be, how big, until you think that it’s not a cage anymore, just life? Is there even a cage? Are we free? I was rewatching…
-
Sylvia Plath’s Fig Tree Analogy: Can We Choose The Best Life?
When I read the Fig Tree analogy of Sylvia Plath, I was once again reminded of the absolute overwhelming truth of the fact that human consciousness, human will, human thought, is ultimately all the same. And that even though we’re all unique and unparalleled in our mental states, our problems, our emotions, our choices and…
-
How to Live in the Present Moment & Stop Overthinking
How I Went from Being a Chronic Overthinker to Learning How to Live in the Present Moment Live in the present. Right now. Be where your feet are. Stop overthinking. Have you ever stopped, for once, doing your work and thought about what these implications really are? Can you confidently say that you live in…
-
Friendship Is The Basis Of Life: Be a Good Friend
Friendships weave together moments of our life. When we’re young, friendships are everything. Friendship is the basis of life, the foundation of all relationships. All the world narrows down to today and the little group of friends and family that we love and cherish and laugh with. Everything comes home to that laughter. There is…
-
Our Assumptions Regarding The World And Why We Need To Challenge Them
As human beings, we make thousands of assumptions regarding the world and its occupants in the duration of our lives. We assume and we judge without even waiting to gather enough information to support our assumptions. Sometimes, we don’t even care to verify these assumptions. We just live on believing them and thinking them to…
-
Do You Believe In Free Will?
Do you believe in Free Will? Do you believe in Fate? Do you think that there’s a bigger picture that we can’t yet see but still end up contributing in? The sun sets everyday, knowing that this is Fate. The moon comes and whispers, ‘So is the dawn.’ Now, we won’t talk about unnecessary things…