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Enjoy Contentment, Connection and Consciousness

Over the next few minutes (I hope you have time) I will explore with you the interconnected notions of (a) Contentment, (b) Connection, and (c) Consciousness. By the end I hope to show how all three are attained without much effort because it��s based on enjoying what is already there. Let us begin. Cue music (first enjoyment, then contentment): Everybody’s talkin’ at meI can’t hear a word…

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Enjoy Your Fundamental Self

“A Birch Grove” (1889) by Isaac Levitan (1860-1900) This blog (“web log”) is for self help. It is written by me to help me enjoy my life and because you are a me too and you have a self too, maybe the ideas I present can help us both enjoy life better, together. It might have been better as a YouTube channel because fewer people read than watch videos but I’m better as a writer than as a…

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A Bad Mood? Not Any More

NOTE: No portion of this blog is written by Artificial Intelligence. Grammarly is not used to “authentically” express myself and there are no images fashioned by AI. Everything herein is composed by the biological intelligence of one person (such as it is). Let us begin. Imagine it’s sunrise…. “Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains call on us?”…

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Enjoy Clarity

Clarity: What is it? Why does it matter? How do I get it? These are the questions we ask ourselves today. First: What is clarity? “Clarity means clearness. Clean water running down a mountain has clarity. So does a lovely singing voice: it’s clear and pure. If you bring clarity to a situation, you help people see what really happened by clearing up misunderstandings or giving explanations.…

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What's It All About?

People are like Peeps: crusty on the outside and gooey on the inside. Does it ever feel to you like the world is falling apart? The list of issues caused by human activity is horrendous, isn’t it? We’ve got biodiversity loss, environmental disaster, potential nuclear holocaust, destructive artificial intelligence and societal collapse, just to name a few (List of Global Issues). Given the…

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A perspective to enjoy

Everyone has a perspective, a “point of view,” or POV, if you will. We all have a vantage point from which we perceive the world around us with our senses and, moreover, everyone has their own way of thinking and feeling about what they are perceiving with those senses. Thinking and feeling are interconnected. Thinking and feeling certain ways can cause a person to say certain things and behave…

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Enjoy Love, Understanding, and Dancing

Source: Will Clickbait ruin Quora someday? Here at a Philosophy of Enjoyment there is no clickbait and shrill exclamation points are strictly avoided. Yes! Here there are no broad claims made to sell you something and no “100% Guaranteed If Not Totally Satisfied!” With a Philosophy of Enjoyment, there are no phony directives. There is no lack of logic and no lame clichés to disenchant you.…

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Self-transformation for Transcendence and Enjoyment

Photo: Jacek Stankiewicz, Kraków, Poland. The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2023. So, here you are. How’d that happen? Did a little bird send you? A Philosophy of Enjoyment? You’re kidding, right? Sounds like an excuse to misbehave (think salacious and audacious), but then, maybe you are depressed or anxious or flummoxed by existence or know someone who is, so you did a Google search…

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Looking at trees

Enjoy wisely.

Most people don’t spend much time looking at trees. It’s not exactly an exciting activity. Computer screens are more entertaining. Trees don’t normally go anywhere or do anything. They sway sometimes. Depending on the wind. “The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air.” – Treebeard (Tolkien). Most people don’t put looking at trees on their…

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It's been a while: Time to enjoy

It's been a while. I hope you enjoy it!

“A mixture of trees purifies urban air best” (source). Let’s get right to it. Cue music (something gentle): Still Corners “The Trip“. In this blog, a mixture of philosophies has been presented. Rather than one way of thinking, an eclectic approach has been taken. A philosophy of enjoyment mixes philosophies and accepts wise insights from anywhere and everywhere, including: 1) Epicureanism:…

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The Tricky Brain and Everyone's Enjoyment

The Tricky Brain and Everyone’s Enjoyment

Peaceful Autumn Days uploaded by lionheart Humans have big brains. That’s what we’re told. For years scientists have argued, “our brains have more neurons and expend more energy than would be expected for our size, and our cerebral cortex, which is responsible for higher cognition, is disproportionately large” (source: Scientific American). If humans have big brains (note: Dolphins’ brains are…

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Enjoy Being Awesome

“Who can say where the road goes? where the day flows? only time” (Enya). Today we ask ourselves, “Who am I?” It’s a straight forward question with obvious answers: I am a human, I have a name, a family history, I think and do such-and-such and want this-and-that. With further examination, however, from a scientific, psychological and philosophical perspective, you might arrive at something…

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Enjoy Being Wise and Save the World at the Same Time

Enjoy Being Wise and Save the World at the Same Time

“You think that I don’t even mean a single word I say. It’s only words, and words are all I have to take your heart away” – The Bee Gees, “Words” (1968). As has been said before, “the world is a mess and getting messier still” (To think or not: Zen, Tolstoy, Depression and Enjoyment). The number of problems we face is astounding (UN Global Issues). It’s like the world is going to hell in a…

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Utopia, Hedonia, Eudomania, Ataraxia (Oh Yeah)

Utopia, Hedonia, Eudomania, Ataraxia (Oh Yeah)

Thomas More’s Utopia (1518). Photograph: The Granger Collection, New York The word “utopia” is a pun on the Greek ou-topos meaning ‘no place‘ and eu-topos meaning ‘good place‘ (British Library). Thomas More (1478 – 1535) came up with it for his book, Utopia, which is about an island uncorrupted by greed that has qualities of perfection (read: Utopia). More was a lawyer, judge and Catholic who…

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Thinking, Being and Plucking

Thinking, Being and Plucking

Now we look at three philosophies inspired by death and suffering. Two came from poets—carpe diem and To be or not to be—and one came from a beggar—Life is suffering—who started a religion. After looking at all three, we’ll think about thinking and end by enjoying. We begin with carpe diem. Most people have heard of carpe diem. Robin Williams taught us all about it in Dead Poet’s…

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Where Happiness Hides

“Son of Man” (1964) by René Magritte (1898-1967) In René Magritte’s painting “Son of Man” we see a man in an overcoat and bowler hat in front of a low wall with sea and cloudy sky behind and a green apple in front of the man’s face. Why is the apple there? Is the man hiding? What does it mean? Cue music: “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” Eurythmics (1983) The painting is open to…

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A Philosophy of Life (to enjoy)

A Philosophy of Life (to enjoy)

Philosophy is all around us. It’s how people think. It’s even on billboards.

In the Way to Wisdom (1950), psychiatrist (and philosopher) Karl Jaspers (1883-1969) wrote, “the essence of philosophy is not the possession of truth but the search for truth… Philosophy means to be on the way” (p. 11).

“…the question,” writes Jaspers, “is not whether a philosophy is conscious or not, whether it…