And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.... Friedrich Nietzsche

Live life two headed

04.27.08 Posted in Humanity, Meaningless, Philosopy, Waking up by Okan

Keep constantly in your mind how many doctors die after a lifetime of wrinkling their brows in thought over the sick; and how many astrologers die after predicting with much ceremony the death of others; and how many philosophers die after exhausting their minds with countless discourses concerning death and immortality; and how many military [...]


“Comparing” The source of “Not Happy”

02.23.08 Posted in Meaningless, Philosopy, Truth, Waking up by Okan

It is a very interesting thing this “Comparing.” It is one of the greatest sources of suffering of our times. If you are not happy you are most likely comparing.
My mother was 64 years old. She struggled with breast cancer for 8 years and passed away in January. As people poured to our home, there [...]


Facts are NOT the Facts

09.29.07 Posted in Meaningless, Philosopy, Truth by Okan

From the book, Sartre for Beginners by Donald Palmer
A group of friends on vacation go for a day hike in the Alps. Half way to the mountain top, which is their goal, they turn a bend in the path and find their way blocked by a huge boulder that has fallen in such a a [...]


The Inadequacy of Reason – Pascal

09.01.07 Posted in Meaningless, Philosopy, Truth by Okan

When I consider the brief span of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and behind it, the small space that I fill, or even see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces which I know not, and which know not of me, I am afraid, and wonder to see myself here rather than [...]


What does it look like?

08.11.07 Posted in Meaningless, Truth, Waking up by Okan

It is amazing how we collapse concepts with what is real. We talk about concepts like we can touch them or grab them in our hands or see them with our eyes. I think it is the source of our poor relationship with reality and most of our suffering.


Someone has to kill the chickens

07.21.07 Posted in Meaningless, Waking up by Okan

I have been reading this idea of having a purpose for my life. More outrageous, is the idea that I can discover my purpose. Like it is hidden somewhere and I can get it out. Well get ready for some existential damage.


DEADEYE DICK – Kurt Vonnegut

06.17.07 Posted in Meaningless, They by Okan

TO THE AS-YET UNBORN, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.


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