Perspectives

 

Essays of a more general nature including ethics, thoughts about life and views about human nature, our times and evolution. 

 

The Gift of Life

 

This is one of the earliest essays I wrote and it came out of a series of Thoughts of the Day on Facebook. They were on the topic of personal growth and ways to share my understanding of how our minds work, which we can use this to our benefit. It is true that personal growth is important and how we go about it singularly important. In this regard it is how we live our lives each and every day that matters the most.

Sure, we can work on issues, see opportunities in our lives to become "better" people for at times we must do this to deal with the issues we face. However, to focus on it for extended periods of time also takes us away from living and enjoying the gift of life.

A Consideration of Opposites

 

 

As long as I have been studying and learning about life I have bumped into the idea of opposites in countless discussions. The opposites or dualities most commonly mentioned are those of love and hate, peace and war, good and bad or right and wrong . The thoughts associated with these opposites (though love and hate aren't opposites per se as love is not an emotion) are core mental constructs and have a significant, even profound affect on our view of the world and how we react to experiences.

Our rational mind tends to judge everything and nothing is so easily judged as dualistic notions such as right or wrong or perfect and imperfect. They affect me as well and, given my curiosity, it was only natural that these are ideas I have give a great deal of thought to over the years.

Main Menu

Extras