“It is convention alone which persuades me that I am simply this body bounded by a skin in space, and by birth and death in time.”

Not for nothing are we told that true comprehension of the insight I do not exist is accessible only through sustained and arduous meditation!

In the Nicomachean Ethics, named for his son, Nicomachus, Aristotle argued that a good life is one of virtuous activity in accordance with reason. His word for happiness or human flourishing, “eudaimonia,” has been adopted by psychologists who distinguish self-realization or “eudaimonic well-being” from “hedonic well-being” or the experience of ple

on Aristotle’s theory of middle age as the prime of life, the body being most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five, the mind at forty-nine.

But you can meditate for insight, if not into the no-self view, into the value of the atelic.

“these findings tell a story in which the age U-shape in job (and overall life) satisfaction is driven by unmet aspirations that are painfully felt in midlife, but beneficially abandoned and felt with less regret during old age.”30 The key to happiness, then, is managing one’s expectations. (This seems like the right time to warn you that you are r

What is the value of having options you do not exercise, paths you do not walk?

Relationships can fail; love can be imperfect; it can fade. Philosophy will not change this.

being is autosubversive, for its whole purpose and project is one of self-annihilation.”