Archive for the 'Deep Reflections' Category

Should we hide our faults?

March 19th, 2008

photo by: jmartinovici
People with brilliant minds and extraordinary capacities think little of admitting or exposing their weaknesses and faults. For them, they represent something for which they have paid, something that they deserve to have. They might even feel that their errors do them honor and help define them better.

On the other hand there [...]

On human capacities

March 18th, 2008

 

Photo by: carf
No one can know what capacities he possesses for doing, happiness or suffering, until an opportunity arises to bring them into play.

Without such opportunity, the best anyone can do is speculate. And that speculation is often times exaggerated, as almost every person wishes, hopes and dreams, or distorts the reality with other, more [...]

On real happiness

March 12th, 2008

 

Photo: Brad & Sabrina
As Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosopher, once wrote, “happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”

That most of us misunderstand happiness and look for it in the wrong places is not an unknown fact. We constantly suffer its illusion and blindly try to [...]

The art of *not* reading

March 5th, 2008

 

photo by: Kamal H.
Writing is the activity of giving thoughts material form, with the use of signs and symbols. Written materials, such as books, essays and webpages, are the materialization of someone’s thoughts. Thus, reading represents the assimilation of foreign thoughts in one’s own mind.

While we read, our mind is similar to a puppet in [...]

Selling words for thoughts for money

February 27th, 2008

 

photo by: thorinside
Quite often, while surfing the internet and reading different pages, I have stopped and wondered why do so many people feel the need to write lengthy phrases in order to make a simple, often times trivial idea, intelligible.

I thought that it might be the complete lack of any writing skills, or the lack [...]

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