Photo by Jan Kopřiva A few weeks ago I was listening to an episode Ten Percent Happier podcast by Dan Harris where he was interviewing the Dalai Lama. Despite receiving a lot of criticism for keeping the conversation at a high level, the Dalai Lama, when asked about the key to happiness in life, provided …
Photo by Eduardo Olszewski I am currently reading Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay on self-reliance and find myself agreeing with his holistic postulate that we sympathize with historical events because we see can readily ourselves in them as 1st person. He states that the key in self-reliance is to understand that all of history is within …
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Photo by Jan Huber A rather disturbing tendency that was brought to my attention upon an informal debate, is the ability we possess to form an illusory image of self and identity based on their viewpoints and the thoughts they harbor. Specifically, I mean that the set of one’s thoughts, beliefs and viewpoints is being …
Photo by Steve Leisher I have tried to abstain having any opinion on recent events particularly those concerning the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Having long dissolved the need to form rigid yet fragile views, I now remain fully plastic and open to receiving whatever new information and opinions may come my way. However, I felt …
Photo by Annie Spratt I believe for the first time I believe that in my life I am truly speechless. I haven’t written a blog in a while because I have felt that I have nothing to really say. As a previously chronicled, the dissolution of strong opinions in conjunction with many other factors seems …
Lily’s Voice was a small project idea I had conceived 3 years ago. Pivoting back and forth on what was feasible given my geographic limitations with kind and knowledgeable individuals who believed in my passion and vision has led us collectively to be able to launch Lily’s Voice. Lily’s Voice is a Canadian incorporated not-for-profit …
Photo by Clay Banks There is something quite fundamentally broken in the the healthcare system of Montreal. A tyranny in the guise of benevolence has formed. In this chronicle, I wish to dissect what I believe is the crux of the breakage, how proposed solutions will inevitably fail and where I believe the real solution …
Photo by Alexander Schimmeck Although the incompatibility between stress and learning may seem somewhat intuitive, I wish to further flesh it out the argument and use it to examine the central role of stress in our modern society. More so, I wish to emphasize the dangers in creating a stressful atmosphere for children. Fundamentally, and …
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Photo by Ashkan Forouzani I have begun to take greater notice of the tendency for human beings to view objects and one another in discrete silos. It appears that the easier we can place something or someone in a discrete state, the easier we can process information and claim to have understood/generalized someone. Good, bad, …
For the last few years I have begun to take a far more stoic stance on life. Although I was never one for the emotional fluctuations, my deep dive in eastern philosophy and eternalism really begun to cement a far more neutral state within me. Simply put, I couldn’t help but realize how futile and …
