Think to Love
We are afraid of having liberty because we need to be responsible for what it may come next. We may lack the truth to support freedom and then accept whatever comes next because we are thrown into existence without a parachute. When we decide what we can do, always looking at the truth, then we …
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Life has many aspects that may seem unavoidable or we may think it is just luck. Perhaps we haven't done anything special or we think we may not deserve the life we are having; we may think we have been "blessed" or simply life is not that hard for us. There are many things we …
What do we need? Do we really need many things? If we have all we need, then what is missing? Is it good to have it all? Can we have it all? In daily life, people mention that their happiness is having everything they need, but now that they don't have it, they aren't happy? …
One of the main problems in ancient Grece was a metaphysical problem between two philosophers: Heraclitus and Parmenides. That issue lasted around 300 years without any solution until Plato and Aristotle helped humanity solved it. Heraclitus proposes that the origin of everything is fire because it can transform whatever get in touch with it. So if the fire …
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El mundo se mueve con rapidez, cada día se presentan nuevos retos, ideologías, personas y situaciones personales, económicas y políticas que nos llevan a una vorágine de actividades que nos terminan estresando. ¿Cómo no volverse loco? Hay muchas cosas características de la cultura que ayudan al pueblo a aguantar la presión de los gobiernos y …
El principio de todo fue lo primero que los filósofos buscaron para comprender su lugar en el mundo, aquello de lo que se sostiene todo. Para unos lo fueron los elementos encontrados en la naturaleza, pero poco a poco fueron encontrando que no puede ser algo material que pueda corromperse y acabarse, sino algo más: …
This time of the year we tend to reflect what we have done in the last 364 days and we face ourselves with the expectations we made at the beginning of the year. We may think we failed and we have if we keep on insisting year after year on the same thing. We need …
Últimamente hemos escuchado en los medios acerca de la "corrupción", todos la mencionan pero parece ser que nadie sabe de dónde sale, qué es exactamente y cómo erradicarla. Al parecer tiene que ver con algunas virtudes y no con valores, es decir que una virtud es algo que haces habitualmente, una y otra vez, en …
Dr Seuss talks about the frenzy of people during Christmas when they lose themselves in superfluous things as shopping, fashion, consumerism that prevents us from getting the true sense of the holidays. People become anxious and less caring for others. Everything becomes a competition of who bought the best gift, decorated their houses the most beautiful and …
Life is filled with richness and filled with beings. Everything has rules and plans and meaning that we discover each day. In nature there is also a void; things we can’t explain or that don't have meaning. Then we realize that we don’t like those things because of the lack everything. Emptiness is always lurking around. Philosophy …
