This article is a bit more personal than the other ones and that’s what makes it so powerful. One of the things I love to do is reading. Reading applicable knowledge, of course. My favourite reading format quotes. I like quotes so much because they consist of powerful knowledge which…

Life in the 21st century is a lot different than a hundred years ago, let alone two thousand years ago. Internally, humans have stayed pretty much the same. We lose patience with petty things, we care too much about what other people think, and we struggle to cope with change. …

Interest in Buddhism often goes hand in hand with an interest in exploring the parallels and relationships between the Buddha’s teachings and some of the Western philosophical and spiritual traditions. One of these is, without a doubt, Stoicism. This philosophical school was born a century and a half after the…

Today we think that we live in a hectic world. We worry about things that are not under our control and that cause great frustration and anxiety. …

Stoic philosophy has man as its centre of concern. It’s important to understand how the Stoics viewed the world because it is the starting point of their thinking. Despite the centuries that have passed, Stoic philosophy continues to be valid in an age like the one we are living in…

The best part about Stoicism is that you can go to the main books on Stoicism, read them and feel like they were written yesterday, not 2000 years ago. You can pick up Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, or Epictetus and find the writing fresh as always. In them, we find the…

It’s funny how human consciousness works — and especially the unconscious — but also tragic. Almost all of our conflicts are based on so-called “misunderstandings”. “Misunderstandings” already tells us what it’s actually about: one person doesn’t understand another and vice versa. A problem that Stoics are also regularly faced with. …

Throughout human history, problems have stemmed from scarcity — the problems of the modern world are caused by abundance. For decades humanity has been discovering new ways to connect and speed up life. Today we dream of moments of silence, without sound notification, unopened emails, and endless group chats. It…

The terms stoicism and spirituality can sometimes be used interchangeably. Although the philosophies are quite similar, there are still diametrical differences between them. We’ll show you what are the differences and what the similarities are between stoicism and spirituality. We’ll start with the definition of both terms. Stoicism is the…