The pursuit of knowledge and truth.
In humanistic psychology Carl Rogers differentiated the actual self: the person you are now, with the ideal self: the person you want to be. This short essay will be an analysis of the ideal self and some insight into becoming your best version of you. The Transcendent Self In most eastern traditions, the ideal self …
It has been brought to my attention that the word ‘mindfulness’ gets thrown around a fair bit when people speak about mental health strategies and in things like spirituality and Buddhism, but it rarely gets a definition or explanation. What is mindfulness? It incorporates lots of different mental and physical techniques with an underlying purpose …
The Difference Between Ego and Healthy Self-Esteem In this short essay I aim to detail the key differences between ego and healthy self-esteem. I think it’s important that people examine their inner workings and their relationships with others, as these are the foundation that ego and self-esteem are built on. I definitely used to have …
Buddhism as I understand it is a practice that examines reality and its observer (you) deeply through the lens of the Buddha. It teaches you to firstly become awake, and secondly to become the master of your own mind. It has aided me greatly with managing my day-to-day mental health and has resonated deeply with …
If someone asked, “who are you?” what do you respond with? Most people would answer with their name. But is your name really who you are? Or is it just a word that you identify with when other people call you it? If you are not your name then who are you? This question has …
As far as I can tell, there are two ways in which to live this life. You can either operate under the notion that you are one of seven billion humans on a speck of dust in an infinite cosmos and that nothing matters. Or you can alternately live life following the idea that you …
Think of a time where you had no perception of time, no thoughts of the past or future, fully engrossed in what you were doing at that exact moment or fully aware of what was going on and how you were feeling. Now what if I told you that you could live life predominantly in …
Firstly, for the sake of this post I’d like you to leave all your values and beliefs, all you’ve ever learned behind for the moment. Hopefully in doing this you achieve maximum shift in perspective, as I did when I learned what I’m about to tell you. It’s also important to explain in full so …
Preface. Firstly, this is not a revolution post, the current system is the best we’ve come up with so far, and benefits people who have opportunity and understand it. I’m not calling for a complete reform, more of a dimensional attitude change. And I believe phones and technology are great tools to use as an …
I hope to enlighten you to the fact that thoughts are uncontrollable and impermanent, and that this is a good thing. The majority of people are oblivious to the fact that they are prisoners to their own internal white noise. This is their thoughts, and the fact that they think that they are their thoughts. …