One of the transcendentals that ancient philosophers talked about, that brings about the greatest degree of health, happiness and human flourishing, is beauty. Or pursuing perfect beauty, to be specific. Love, goodness, and truth are some of the others, but beauty is really interesting to me. How can beauty lead...
What’s Beating Your Heart?
Have you ever thought about your heartbeat before? Like in a philosophical sense, like, what’s beating your heart right now, in this very moment? Why is your heart continuously beating? What is keeping you alive as you read this (or listen to this)? From a scientific perspective, it’s a tiny...
Greater Purpose in the Workplace
There are 2 ways to find greater purpose in the workplace. The first is to bring your personal passion or purpose to work. Share it with your coworkers or customers. The second is to discover new truths at work (knowledge, insights, better ways of working). And share those with your...
Are We In Control?
The things that we experience in life oftentimes seem to be binary. There’s a sense of randomness combined with a sense of order. There is a sense of control and a lack of control. Specifically, with respect to the things that happen to us and also the things that we...
A Mindset for Pain and Suffering
I believe that God exists and that God is perfect love, beauty, and goodness, among many other things. But if God exists, how can evil, the utter absence of goodness and love, also exist? If the source of all reality is perfect love and perfect goodness, as I described in...