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

“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 [...]


The site is about causing Insight.

10.06.07 Posted in Humanity, Truth, Waking up by Okan

This man is dying. Or is he?


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 [...]


From the book “The Power of Personal Accountability” by Mark Samuel & Sophie Chiche

08.27.07 Posted in Philosopy, Truth, Waking up by Okan

A quote by Volataire. Regarding being a victim in life.
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”
What a profound way to put it.


The Uniqueness of Freedom – from ‘Freedom and Destiny by Rollo May’

08.17.07 Posted in Philosopy, Truth, Waking up by Okan

Every other reality in human existence becomes what it is by its nature. The heart beats, the eyes see; it is their nature to do what they do. Or, if we take something inorganic like values, we know what the nature of truth is – e.g., to state things as close to the reality as [...]


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.


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