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How To Enjoy Your Life More: Part 5 – Reaching Nirvana

Monday, August 11th, 2008

Nirvana’s a term that’s been flippantly tossed around, so its true meaning has muddled over time. It’s not a location. It’s not a band. It’s a state of mind. Nirvana is the Buddhist term for the quiet state of peace and pure pleasure that can only be found in one’s own private, innermost theater of [...]

How To Enjoy Your Life More: Part 2

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

History is full of debauched slobs who drank, drugged, and bumbled their way through life, sometimes to tragic ends. Are these to be taken as examples of the “good life”? Hardly. As always, the pendulum swings, and the excessive, unrestrained indulgences of our forebears simply represent the dangers of unbridled hedonism. A touch of restraint [...]

How To Begin To Enjoy Your Life More

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

“Pleasure is the beginning and end of living happily.” – Epicurus “A well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” – Leonardo da Vinci “Somewhere between cosmic freedom and responsibility to the people you love lays the answer to life.” Earlier this afternoon, as I lay on my black satin [...]

A Brief History Of You And Your Stuff

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

It’s ironic we’re looking to industrial designers to save the earth when the profession has been so instrumental in feeding society’s ravenous desire for gratuitous change. In the 1920′s, GM started tweaking the looks of its cars each year - an effort to boost sales in a saturated market. The ploy worked: other carmakers followed suit, [...]

What Does “Living Life” Mean To You?

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

What is “living” ? Sounds like such a simple question, but I’m frequently surprised by how few people really consider what it really means to them. And no, I don’t mean the involuntary act of breathing, and all the other things the body does to sustain itself. I’m talking about choosing your place in the world, finding it, [...]

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