The Art of Living a Meaningless Existence: Ideas from Philosophy That Change the Way You Think

What matters is whether we learn to play our instrument well or badly. That’s going to take discipline and practice, no matter how or where we do it. Maybe it’s not so important which instrument we choose, as long as we can make it ours. Likewise, there is no need to stick with an instrument to which we don’t feel very suited because we’ve heard th

If children can have a natural clarity, you might too, even if you remember no operatic enlightenment experience. There might be no good reason for this clarity; it could be something that just is the case, like a tree, like life. All you would need to do is to notice that things are clear, or to throw overboard the idea that things are not already

Throughout the millennia and across cultures, those who have thought carefully about desire have drawn the conclusion that spending our days working to get whatever it is we find ourselves wanting is unlikely to bring us either happiness or tranquility.