What is a Good Life?
It seems to me that a good life is a mix of these three realms: the sensual enjoyment of the physical, the pleasure of discovering and expressing our uniqueness and the delight we take in what is beyond ourselves.
BlogsInMind.com Archive, Page 12
Archived Posts from the blog ‘Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life’.
Values, Technology and the Bottom Line: Compassion and Joy
I think that values can affect our relationship with technology in two ways: the why and the how.
How Do We Decide When to Persevere and When to Quit?
Perhaps next time I will be successful… Perhaps it will only take once more…. How would you feel if you stopped just before you were going to be successful and so robbed yourself of what you had been hoping for…?
Accepting Our Dependence
Accepting our physical dependence is easy. We rely on oxygen, nourishment and so on without a thought. Accepting our dependence on other people can often be much trickier.
Living with (Our) Death and Dying
The point of contemplating our future death is to bring us back to a vivid consciousness of the here and now. The purpose is to clarify the choices we have, to have a sense of our priorities so that we can take steps to shape our lives around them.
Aging and Longer-Term Changes in the Self
It seems to me that some things can only come to older people. I can only know some things having tried them out — my dietary preferences, or how I prefer to conduct a friendship, for instance.
How is Our Behaviour Influenced By the Size of the Group Around Us?
Is the reason why we don’t do in a small group what we will do in a crowd, different to the reason that we will do things in a small setting we wouldn’t want to do in public?