Freeride

“Don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way…
Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.”
__Voltaire

The Call

Only waking up,
_ we might choose it all.
___.Now, rather pick it up,
_____.when you hear the call.

The Happening

Life reifies despite anything you think or worry about.
“May seem determinism, but it is not … Because the only you there is,
is what’s going on“.
__Alan Watts

The Cave

Enjoy this video screening the conversation between Socrates and Glaucon as written by Plato in The Republic. An up to date version, of the classic one.

Beyond Words

Alan Watts says; “if we think is because we’re manipulating with symbols … then, the ghosts in our languages are in fact the limit of our reason.”

Also aims that fortunately we might not be completely lost after that, because as the Dutch philosopher Aart van der Leeuw wisely said; “the mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”

Pursuit of Happiness

A nice series on philosophy presented by popular British philosopher Alain de Botton, featuring six thinkers who have influenced history, and their ideas about the pursuit of the happy life:

Schopenhauer on Love
Epicurus on Happiness
Nietzsche on Hardship
Montaigne on Self-Esteem
Socrates on Self-Confidence
Seneca on Anger

Here’s another interesting documentary on the same topic: Living Luminaries.

21st Century

A contemporaneous vision of spirituality throughout the words of three men with a profound understanding of today and the challenges humanity will have yet to face.

Stephen Jourdain, Arnaud Desjardins and Lee Lozowick.

Permission to Hope

“Because nature builds in previous achieved levels of complexity, and each advance in complexity proceeds more quickly than the stage that preceded it.”
__Terence McKenna