Question: How important is it to listen to others? Answer: It is very important. We have to reach a state where we start perceiving reality through the desires, needs, viewpoints of others in order to escape our inherently egocentric, self-serving, self-justifying and subjective cocoons. Only through others can we escape from our “selves” and thus … More Listening To Others In Order To Escape Ourselves
Question: Why We Need Bad Things to Happen to Us? Answer: We need “bad things” to happen to us in order to awaken us and drive us to search for “good things”. Pain, suffering is the strongest motivating factor for development as when we feel good, comfortable we do not move but want to stay … More Positive Motivation Through “Sweet Suffering”
Question: At what point did you realised that people will understand only what they would like to hear? Answer: Only since I started studying a unique, empirical science which perfectly explains our inherent Human nature. Since then I know, understand that we are all born with an inherently self-serving, self-justifying, subjective consciousness and perception, which … More Telling Others What They Want To Hear
Question: What is life? What is life like to live for? Where is our life going to go? Answer: Life is sensing a constant desire for fulfillment, pleasures. If we don’t sense such a desire any longer we don’t exist. We think we live in a biological body that defines us. Today we are obsessed … More Life
Question: How can you help others become happy? Answer: True Happiness is a result, a special collective emotional impression from unique, purposefully built, mutually supportive and mutually complementing Human connections, which are built in an environment, where everybody is committed to unconditionally, selflessly provide happiness to others. In short we can help others to be … More True Happiness Is Making Others Happy
Question: What are some things you didn’t realize about people until you had an experience that gave you a fresh perspective? Answer: We can’t get to know others until we actually try to “enter” them and start perceiving reality through their desires, needs and viewpoints. When we succeed to achieve this for the first time … More Standing In The Shoes Of Others
Question: Emotions or logic first? Answer: We can philosophize about which one we “want to choose”, but in truth we do not have a choice: we are sentient, emotional creatures. Our basic matter is a desire for selfish pleasures, our operating software works on an egocentric “pleasure/pain principle”. Our consciousness, perception of reality is based … More Emotional Beings
Question: Why do people say there is a second mind in the stomach? Answer: Here is an interesting article on the subject from Scientific American: Think Twice: How the Gut’s “Second Brain” Influences Mood and Well-Being Also symbolically we can say that we are governed by two different “minds”, calculating systems. The “stomach/gut” represents our … More Rising Above Gut Instinct
Question: At what point does the intellect fail a person who exclusively relies on it for everything in life? Answer: Our intellect, reason is 100% egocentric, subjective, thus it is extremely limited. Moreover we are primarily emotional creatures, thus we are driven by emotional impressions, instincts and hormonal reactions. Our mind is “only” there to … More Failed Intellect
Question: Why do some people think that facts care about their feelings? Answer: We are emotional beings, contrary to our proud belief in our mind, in our intellectual capabilities, we relate to reality in a completely emotional, sentient manner. We all know what “humanized” relationship we build to our completely instinctive, “natural” pets, but even … More Emotional Beings
