There's a widely-held belief that self-discipline means being able to do something when you don't actually want to do it. People who believe this think that self-discipline means going to the gym, reading books, or eating chicken and broccoli when you don't actually want to. For them, self-discipline means ignoring your authentic-self in favour of...

Transcendentalist philosopher Henry David Thoreau argued that, for humans, simplicity

Almost everyone thinks they are a good thinker, but in reality, few people really are.

In life, you're often deciding whether to approach or avoid something.

In The Dhammapada, Buddha says,

The reason you are here on Earth is to fulfill your destiny.
It's what you were intended to do.
Since it is what directs you, it is therefore vitally crucial to understand.
You are lost if you have no purpose.
There isn't a North Star for you.
Your existence will seem pointless.
Thus, in...

In The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky compares two different types of people: Worldly People and Monks.

Nature is propelled by an all-pervasive force that the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, who lived in the nineteenth century, named Will, or more precisely, the Will-To-Live.

It's a short simple word: 'no'.