Post on Website Forum Why is there suffering? Spinoza explains that suffering is pain and pain is a feeling of powerlessness, helplessness, feelings of inferiority, emptiness, and not knowing what…

Buddha explained that all our problems and suffering arise from confused and negative states of mind, and all our happiness and good fortune arise from peaceful and positive states of…

Einstein tried to express these feelings clearly, both for himself and all of those who wanted a simple answer from him about his faith. So in the summer of 1930,…

“There is no need to run outside for better seeing nor to peer from a window.  Rather abide at the center of your being; for the more you leave it,…

How can we become more effective in life? Why are we so easily swayed by our desires’ that take us here, there, and everywhere? We want this we want that,…

There is a saying that the good is the enemy of the better. If you are interested in growth, you had better become familiar with the meaning of this saying.…

How can we become more effective in life? Why are we so easily swayed by our desires that take us here, there, and everywhere? We want this we want that,…

The buffering mechanism in our mind plays many tricks on our thinking in order to spare us pain.  However, at the same time it inhibits our growth. One of the illusions…

One of the fundamental points to understand about the work required for growth, and this Gurdjieff emphasizes, is that, it does not begin at the level of life but originates…