No Regrets

Question: How can you regret something you didn’t do if you can’t possibly know the outcome? Answer: You are completely right. Regret makes sense only when we are in full control, we know exactly the choices in front of us, we have a reasonable expectations about the outcome and then despite of all the evaluations, … More No Regrets

No Deal

Question: Would you rather live a long life of playing it safe or live a short life of happiness and doing whatever you want? Answer: While it is a nice philosophical question, it is not realistic. We underestimate our nature, the engine that drives us. Our insatiable egoistic being, a “black hole-like” desire for pleasures … More No Deal

Changing Personal Knowledge To Absolute Wisdom

Question: What is the most hard-won piece of knowledge you have gained over the course of your life? What made it so difficult to acquire? Answer: The most hard-won piece of knowledge I have gained is that my own knowledge, everything I accumulated through my life, my studies is worth nothing, as it is completely … More Changing Personal Knowledge To Absolute Wisdom

Mission Impossible: Changing Ourselves

Question: What will be the last impossible thing for humans to do? Answer: The greatest, most important “mission impossible” we need to do is changing our inherently self-serving, self-justifying and egoistic nature to its opposite. We have to change the hateful, selfish Human individual – by craftily using, “tricking” the ego itself – to its … More Mission Impossible: Changing Ourselves

I Can Get No Satisfaction…But Together We Can

Question: Why we are never truly satisfied? Answer: Our inherent “matter” is an insatiable, exponentially growing desire for pleasures. Today the larger part of Humanity lives in societies where we have more abundance available than kings used to have a few generations ago. Still we are becoming increasingly emptier, depressed, we turn to all kinds … More I Can Get No Satisfaction…But Together We Can

Grabbing Onto Hope

Question: If everything is truly meaningless and even depressing, why is there such as thing as hope inside all of us human beings? Answer: Your assessment and question is spot on! On one hand we are on a seemingly inevitable path of self-destruction, and at the same time we are still filled with hope that … More Grabbing Onto Hope