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Epicurus: Letter to Menoeceus

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Marc Aurel: Meditations

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Heraclitus: Fragments

It is wise for those who hear, not me, but the universal Reason, to confess that all things are one.

Jianzhi Sengcan: Verses on the Faith in Mind

The tao is perfect like vast space where nothing is lacking and nothing is in excess. Indeed, it is due to our choosing to accept or reject that we do not see the true nature of things.

Epicurus: Letter to Menoeceus

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Epicurus

Letter to Menoeceus

Heraclitus: Fragments

It is wise for those who hear, not me, but the universal Reason, to confess that all things are one.

Jianzhi Sengcan: Verses on the Faith in Mind

The tao is perfect like vast space where nothing is lacking and nothing is in excess. Indeed, it is due to our choosing to accept or reject that we do not see the true nature of things.

Thomas Morus: Utopia

Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich - for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?

Online Philosophy

The basic need that probably unites all human beings, is the need for a satisfactory and happy existence. It seems to be our most fundamental stimulus that consciously, subconsciously or unconsciously underlies most of our activities. Online Philosophy provides you valuable resources that might help you to think about the good and happy life, to get ideas what it could be and to identify ways and means to work towards it.

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The World Within

In this very beautiful video, C.G. Jung talks about the great influence of the unconsciousness on a human being. Failure to understand the images of the unconscious place or a shrinking of ethical responsibility deprives a human being of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life. In The World Within, this idea is explored as we are given a glimpse inside Jung's Red Book, the diary in which he described his dreams and fantasies. In addition, he recorded these unconscious images with colorful paintings which appear throughout the film, along with his reflections upon their possible meaning. These are the creations, as Jung comments, which have carried me out of time into seclusion, out of the present into timelessness.

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To Have or To Be

Erich Fromm speaks with with wisdom, compassion, learning and insight into the problems of individuals trapped in a social world that is needlessly cruel and hostile. Nothing less than a manifesto for a new social and psychological revolution to save our threatened planet, the discussed book 'To Have or To Be?' is a summary of the penetrating thought of Eric Fromm. His thesis is that two modes of existence struggle for the spirit of humankind: the having mode, which concentrates on material possessions, power, and aggression, and is the basis of the universal evils of greed, envy, and violence; and the being mode, which is based on love, the pleasure of sharing, and in productive activity. To Have Or to Be? is a brilliant program for socioeconomic change.

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Brave New World

Mike Wallace interviews English writer Aldous Huxley in 1958. In the interview, Huxley’s best-selling novel Brave New World is discussed. The dystopian novel was written in 1931 and published in 1932. Brave New World ranks high in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels. Topics examined are overpopulation, freedom, social control, central government, social unrest, death control, over-organization, propaganda, television, technology, drugs, bureaucracy, and futurology. Huxley refers to American political campaigns: “All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts are the things that really matter.” His visions are probably more relevant as ever.

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