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Originally posted on <a href="https://maylynno.wordpress.com/2020/05/26/the-new-normal/">maylynno</a>: <br />photo by livescience.com ? This new concept is everywhere now, underpinning new behaviours, new reflexes, new apprehensions and a new way of life. The so called “new normal’ is a normal reaction to an aftermath. Knowing this fact, why to hate the new reality? Reality is a complex concept. The etymology is Latin, res, which means “thing” (for example, the word republic comes from res publica, public thing. A dictatorship calling…

Over the past few weeks we have been discussing David Hume (1711-1776), Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and Georg Wilhelm Hegel (1770-1831). I have to say I have found them at the same time, very hard work and yet brilliant. If I had just read about them in the book we are using I would never have grasped some of their concepts but having a group discussion about them was really stimulating. David Hume spoke about causation […]

Today we met and considered happiness (the Greek word is eudaimonia) as described by Greek philosopher, Aristotle. We each talked a little about what makes us happy. There was a lot of common ground with friends, family and nature featuring highly. I will include some of the ideas we looked at today: Happiness comes from discovering who you are, developing your distinctive talents to work for the overall benefit of others as well as yourself. […]

Originally posted on <a href="http://findyourmiddleground.com/2018/12/30/mooji-the-parable-of-the-two-birds/">Find Your Middle Ground</a>: <br />This inspiration is from Mooji and is taken from ‘Vaster Than Sky Greater Than Space’. “Some time ago I saw a picture depicting a parable from the Bhagavad Gita. It showed two birds in a tree, and one of them was building a nest. This one is flying off collecting things, arranging the twigs – its active, doing many things. Above this bird, on another branch, is a…