Even if you have to beg, don’t give up
Have you ever felt like life is an endless loop with no way out? Have you ever stood at a crossroads where fear loomed larger than faith? Today, I want to tell you about a younger friend of mine who was “tough as nails.” He started out in a damp,…
Killing Time
Weekend morning. I was sitting with my coffee and the rare stillness of early hours when the phone went “ting ting”. A message from an old friend: “Got anything fun to kill time with? I’m so free, so bored, nothing to do.” I froze. Not at the message, but at…
A Perfect Universe
Slow down into stillness and watch the world closely, and you’ll notice how often we see life through the narrow lens of daily joys and sorrows. When a contract falls through, when someone we love turns away, when a project we poured our heart into collapses, we tend to cry…
STOICISM and the Journey of Tranquility
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes | Topic: Personal Development, Applied Philosophy If you are holding a book on Stoicism in your hand and hesitating over whether words written thousands of years ago by ancient Roman philosophers can help with a modern life flooded with deadlines, financial stress, and complex relationships,…
Just a Thought
Friends and Soulmates
This morning, I sat at a coffee shop with two old friends. Amidst the casual banter, one suddenly sighed, “Why is it that as we get older, we have fewer friends?” The other nodded immediately in agreement, “Yeah, that’s so true.” I looked at them both and fell silent in…
Touching the dream
Next door to me in a normal countryside village lived a younger cousin of mine. From an early age, he carried a passion that was anything but normal. While his peers were absorbed in ordinary games and entertainment, he would bury himself in tattered, old car magazines. He created a…
The Empty Cup
A Monday morning on Phú Quý island. I was swimming in clear, cool water. My companion – a man living at ease, with a happy family and the grounded calm most people only dream of – looked up: “After all these years, look how much we’ve learned.” An offhand remark.…
Life's Playbooks
Man’s search for meaning!
Finding light amid impermanence Some books we finish, return to the shelf, and quickly forget as time flows on. But there are works that, when the final page closes, open a vast stillness in our minds—compelling us to sit quietly, face ourselves, and reexamine the entire path we are walking.…
The Intuition Trap and the Art of Slowing Down
Stop for exactly three seconds, don’t think, and write down the first number that jumps into your head: A bat and a ball cost $1.10 together. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? If the number that flashed up was 10 cents, congratulations…
Death: The Ultimate Beauty
A man carrying late-stage cancer tumors, with only a few short months left to live, walked up to the lecture podium at Carnegie Mellon University. He projected the CT scans of his own body onto the screen – the very tumors gnawing away at his life, day by day. Then…
Murphy’s Law: When the Whole Universe Is Against Me Alone
Have you ever wondered why the universe seems to be aiming at you and you alone? Years ago, that question spun in my head every single day. Stuck in traffic, I would slip into the next lane because the cars over there were inching forward faster. But the moment my…