Delving katika maeneo ya Utupu
“Just as it is known that an image of one’s face is seen depending on a mirror but does not really exist as a face, so the conception of “I” exists dependent on mind and body, but like the image...
View ArticleWakati katika shaka, Mmoja lazima kukua
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. - Khalil Gibran Doubt is a state of mind where the person cannot take a decision or come to terms with the given truth. There is...
View Article10 Movies kuwepo kwake lazima kuangalia
Cinema is an eloquent form of art. Since ages, it has played an instrumental role in portraying and foretelling the stories of mankind. It has picked up several themes: existentialism being one of...
View ArticleLazima Intellectual ajili ya kuishi maisha ya kiroho
“‘Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.” ~ Alan Watts The intellect, the rational reasoning part of ego, wants to know everything. At least, it is true of...
View ArticleMaisha na Mtazamo: Ni Sisi moja tu ya seli ya dunia?
We all know there is a delicate balance here on Earth from bacteria to people, but can it be said that our planet is one living being made up of “cells”? Certainly our existence has shaped the planet,...
View ArticleSanaa ya Wu-wei na Nguvu ya Effortless Action
“The Sage is occupied with the unspoken and acts without effort. Teaching without verbosity, producing without possessing, creating without regard to result, claiming nothing, the Sage has nothing to...
View ArticleTofauti kati ya Maarifa na Wisdom
“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” – T. S. Eliot. Knowledge and wisdom might sound like synonyms since both refer to the mind and an...
View ArticleTarakimu Vital Ugeuzi ya kisasa Sage
“My idea of the modern Stoic Sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragility In...
View Article10 Beautiful Life Lessons from Calvin and Hobbes
Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes was undoubtedly, an integral part of my childhood. As a child, it entertained me and made me think and laugh at the same time. The comic strip that revolved around a...
View ArticleThe Seven Monomythic Arts of Self-inflicted Philosophy
“We have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is fully known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought...
View ArticleEudaimonia and the Power of Living in the Tension Between Opposites
“Self-mastery, maturity, and wisdom are defined by our ability to hold the tension between opposites.” – Louis G. Herman Eudaimonia is a Greek word that is, etymologically, made up of two words: “eu”...
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