How should I live?
The umbrella question — every tradition gives an answer as a practice: examine, cultivate, flow, love, accept, create.
9 perspectives
Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Confucius
Do not impose on others what you do not wish for yourself
“Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself.”
Laozi
The softest things overcome the hardest
Epictetus
Some things are up to us, some are not; peace lies in knowing which
“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
Rumi
Love is the force that dissolves the separate self
“Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.”
Attar of Nishapur
The journey's end is a mirror: what the birds sought was themselves
Dōgen
Practice and realization are one (shushō ittō)
“To study the Buddha Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.”
Søren Kierkegaard
Subjectivity is truth: the deepest truths are lived, not proven
Friedrich Nietzsche
God is dead — and we must come to terms with what that empties
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”