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To Retire or Not To Retire


I believe the ultimate questions to ask oneself at this stage in life are: “Have I fulfilled my potential as … More

Retirement

The Burden of Struggle for Justice


Not only are today’s activists enraged, they bemoan a state of constant fatigue (and in some instances, post-traumatic stress disorder) … More

Injustice, Justice, Oppression, Systems of oppression

The Unfolding and Undoing of Critical Race Theory


In the midst of this protracted conflict, students led by Crenshaw and another future scholar and professor of law, Mari … More

Critical Race Theory

Socratic Humility


And yet for all this influence, many of our ways are becoming far from Socratic. More and more our politics … More

Ignorance, Political discourse, Socrates' Irony, Socrates' Method, Wisdom

Happiness and Its Spin-offs


Aristotle points out in Nicomachean Ethics that while we desire every other thing for being instrumental and serving some other … More

Happiness, Living in the Now, Living in the Present

One’s Love for a Woman


“One’s love for a woman (and even for one’s near and dear) is most often never pure because you stand … More

Love, Pure love, Quotable quotes, Quotations, Quote, Quotes, True love

To Love or To Be Loved


“No, not when you are not loved, but when you do not love, life becomes difficult.”–D. Samarender Reddy

Love, Quotable quotes, Quotations, Quote, Quotes

Psychedelics and Prayer


What I am suggesting is that the appearance of small mystical societies in ancient times that ultimately evolved into more … More

Prayer, psychedelics

Five Reasons Why Morality is Distracting and Harmful


[My comment: That’s why Dharma is a better concept than morality since it takes into account the context in which … More

Categorical imperative, Ethics, Kantian ethics, Moral philosophy, Morality

Unconditional Love


Unconditional love is an illusion. Sacrifices and gifts are the reality. Once couples are able to give up the illusion … More

Love, True love, Unconditional Love

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