Tag: faith

Kierkegaard’s Three Stages on Life’s Way: From Pleasure to Faith


Kierkegaard saw life as a movement through three stages: aesthetic, ethical, and religious. The aesthete lives for pleasure and beauty but faces despair in the absence of meaning. The ethical person seeks order and integrity through moral commitment, discovering purpose but not ultimate peace. The religious stage transcends both—where faith defies reason and the self meets God in passionate inwardness. Kierkegaard’s vision is not about stages to climb but choices to make; each reflects how deeply one dares to live.

Walking the Middle Path: A Daily Guiding Note for Peace


At 75+, with a fulfilled life behind me and a peaceful present, I was advised by my relative Sam, a student of Advaita, to forget the world, ignore mind and heart, and simply live in awareness. Instead of renouncing life entirely, I now follow a middle path. Each day I care for my body, enjoy family and friends lightly, and watch desires without clinging. Morning quietude, small acts of kindness, and evening reflection keep me steady. Life’s forms may rise and fall like pots of clay, but peace rests in the awareness that is never broken.

Four Poems


The Utter Indifference Somebody brought me here.   Somebody brought me here On this earth.   Somebody brought me here … More