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Philosophy for those who feel before they understand.

Meaning • Death • Silence • Becoming.

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@WordsnWisdom26 “Every man has reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has other matters which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself... But there are other things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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@WordsnWisdom26 Complaining about minor discomforts is a privilege reserved for those who forget what real loss looks like.

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@AtlanteanGnosis The real disagreement with Plotinus is how that ultimate reality relates to the world and whether individuality and freedom survive within it.

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@AtlanteanGnosis Plotinus was certainly sophisticated, but the contrast here is too simplistic. Spinoza didn't say “nothing ever happens,” nor did he reduce God to a projection. His position was almost opposite: God or Nature is the one necessary reality, and everything follows from its necessity

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The beauty of a flower isn't that it lasts forever; it’s that it doesn't. Why are you living like you have infinite tomorrows?

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If your life needs an audience to feel meaningful...

is it your life you're living...

or your reputation?

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Spinoza got excommunicated for saying God = Nature 👀

The philosopher who said free will is an illusion and that understanding your own causes is the path to peace. Meet Baruch Spinoza.

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“The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

Question For You: What version of your life have you already had to let die?

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What is the greatest illusion humans live under?

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@WordsnWisdom26 If your self-esteem skyrockets with applause and instantly crumbles when someone criticizes you, stop calling yourself grounded, you're just a puppet on a string pulled by strangers.

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Stop living like there's a camera crew following your every move. You are a background character in almost everyone else's movie, and that's the ultimate freedom. Save this for the next time you feel awkward.

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That embarrassing mistake you made today? Everyone already forgot about it.

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We naturally overestimate how much other people are paying attention to us But here’s the liberating truth: Nobody is watching you. Everyone else is far too busy worrying about their own hair their own mistakes and their own lives to spend more than 2 seconds thinking about yours

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In The Ring of the Dove, he examined love with an almost clinical attention.

He argued that genuine love is rarely created in an instant.

It develops through familiarity, time, and shared experience.

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Today we remember Ibn Hazm, who died on August 15, 1064.

He lived in al-Andalus during a period of political collapse, religious debate, and intellectual conflict.

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His intellectual world was enormous.

Law.
Theology.
Logic.
History.
Language.
Comparative religion.
And love.
He refused to treat human experience as something that could be understood from only one discipline.