The Ideal Form of Fitness: A Platonic View Of Working Out
If you poke around my blog, my Facebook page, or my Instagram feed you are bound to find out that I am really into two things, philosophy and fitness.
3 Existential Questions That Can F#@k Up Your Life And The Answers To Make It Right Again
Ah, existential questions. Those rising, dreadful things that strike at you in the dark moments of tragedy or introspection and strip away the fleeting illusions of life revealing the truth of absurdity.
Stop Ignoring The Storm To Stare At The Rainbow: A Defense Of Pragmatic Thought
It is no small secret that I take issue with perpetually positive people. It’s not that I have issues with positivity in general.
Building A Legacy: What Will Your Gravestone Say?
In the lightening moments of morning, just as the sun is inching above the horizon and splashing the brilliant purple and red brushstroke colors of dawn in the sky, I run past a graveyard.
4 Useless Pieces of Advice No One Wants to Hear
Oh, the river of useless platitudes that have flown out of the mouths of well-intentioned people, to which I must occasionally include myself.
Who Are You When The World Is On Fire?
I have known a great many people that seem to have everything together in their lives. People that seem to have it all figured out.
The Stoic Art of Intentional Discomfort
The Stoic philosophers of Greece and Rome proposed a great many practices that were meant to be folded into one’s life to help them reach the ideal states of equanimity, fortitude and wisdom that was the goal of the Stoic Sage.
The Philosophy of Fitness: A Strong Body for a Strong Mind
From the dawn of philosophy, the division of the mind and the body has formed one of the classic dualisms. Many philosophers have focused their attention on the importance and superiority of the mind while ignoring the impact the body has on our general being.
The Anatomy Of A Broken Heart
I have yet to meet a heart that has not had its share of breaking. It is an inevitable consequence of something so powerful and fulfilling and overwhelming as love that it should also contain within it the capacity to be as debilitating, mournful, and suffering as a broken heart can be.
We Are All So Beautiful And All So Broken
I see you out there. Picking up the pieces of your life with that red-faced look of shame and that faint shine of tears that is swelling in your eyes.
