Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Change is our only constant. Something in you and/or the outer situation has to change. Go with the flow of transformation, don’t resist it by clinging to the obsolescent structures of the past. Life is change, you must keep moving, changing, adapting, transforming. Woody Allen, in his classic film, Annie Hall, said: “A relationship, I…

Self-acceptance cannot be postponed until you feel you are good enough, untill you have reached your ideal weight, idealized romantic relationship or other images of success. Even if you achieved such things you would need to keep the cyanide capsules close at hand because any of these things can be taken away. When will you…

Moods are as real and ever-shifting as weather patterns. It is all too easy to allow yourself to be ruled by moods, to go with the high of over confident euphoria, to get lost in the miasma of dark moods. Dark moods come with human incarnation. Moods need to be acknowledged and accepted. They cannot…

You may never know all the mysterious depths that cause some people to stand so much closer to you than others. There is the often-monotonous carnival of circumstantial acquaintance, and then there are those certain people you are connected to by inner ties. They are like planets with orbits aligning, even intersecting with the orbit…

Get in touch with your essence to find out what you came here to do, or what will most fulfill you now that you are here. Youth, in this sense, is mostly metaphorical. It means that which is of your essence, your birthright, as compared to that which is imposed upon you by circumstance. Reclaiming…

Get in touch with your essence to find out what you came here to do, or what will most fulfill you now that you are here. Youth, in this sense, is mostly metaphorical. It means that which is of your essence, your birthright, as compared to that which is imposed upon you by circumstance. Reclaiming…

We are culturally conditioned to contemplate people, opportunities and states of being from the point of view of immature masculinity: How much money will it make? What’s hot? What’s not? Is it loaded with enough bells and whistles to spike my blood sugar? It is easy to get so caught up in the bustle of…

“There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;” — T.S. Eliot You are not your persona or social self. We all put on social masks and in some circumstances they are quite necessary. But they are not who you are. If some old masks…

“Crossing the great stream” is a phrase that recurs often in the I Ching. Change is our only constant, and as life changes we come to intervals of transition, times that demand significant inner and/or outer change from us. The problem is that organisms tend to be conservative; they try to defend the old equilibrium,…

“Crossing the great stream” is a phrase that recurs often in the I Ching. Change is our only constant, and as life changes we come to intervals of transition, times that demand significant inner and/or outer change from us. The problem is that organisms tend to be conservative; they try to defend the old equilibrium,…