There is a tiny rabbit hole somewhere between our worlds. We believe that we know the shortcut to get there.
A totally new situation is developing before our eyes, and we have no idea how to relate to it, or make decisions regarding the future as we have done in the past. This is because we have gotten the most that we can out of man’s basic nature, and it is beginning to dawn on [...]
If everything is limited to this life, then life itself becomes meaningless. Is the ultimate purpose just to exist normally? Isn’t it better not to exist and avoid suffering? The finite is senseless. Or should the person exist so as to disregard life’s terminal character and not to reflect on this? It will then seem [...]
All of us want to receive pleasure through the same enclothments: lust, money and honor, control, knowledge and spirituality. We have an internal computer, that calculates the amount of pleasure we can receive every moment, against the amount of suffering we will experience if we don’t get what we want. That’s why it is said [...]
Our development depends directly on our sensation of pain. The more a person suffers, the more he wants to attain, the more he feels the need to attain higher intellectual skills, and the more our mind develops.
The contrary is also true. It is possible that a person will possess fantastic inherent intellectual and analysis abilities, [...]