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Greetings, fellow adventurers! Today, I invite you to step into a time machine with me as we travel back to the enchanting year of 1984. It's a year filled with enchanting tales, George Orwell's thought-provoking '1984,' and the extraordinary achievements of our Man of the Year, Peter Ueberroth. In this blog post, we'll embark on a heartfelt journey through the memories and moments that make 1984 a truly unforgettable chapter in history. George Orwell's '1984': Our journey begins with the enduring pages of George Orwell's '1984,' a novel that etches itself into the soul. In this thought-provoking work, Orwell paints a vivid picture of a world under the watchful eye of Big Brother. It's a timeless masterpiece that continues to spark discussions about freedom, surveillance, and the human spirit. Peter Ueberroth - The Man of the Year: In 1984, Time Magazine shone a spotlight on Peter Ueberroth, crowning him the "Man of the Year." U...

 “The meaning of life is just to be ALIVE!” - Alan Watts  This phrase (despite seeming very hard to digest…) has a very deep significance.  I will try to explain: As human beings, we tend to create a necessity for meaning or purpose in life. If not, our lives can (many times) just feel “empty” or “lacking something”. Like without a north or a guide. So we set forth The unconsciously master plan: - I live to be rich . (seen by society as Greedy behavior) - For my kids, relative, parents, husband/wife . (“As expected”) - I live for myself (seen as a selfish behavior)  - I live to work (seen as inevitable) - I live for others/charity (seen as altruistic)  And any other adjectives or “purposes” you can imagine!  Just pleaseeee!!!! Don’t you dare to Live for no purpose! Because then you are not only seen as “lost” you are also seen as with “lack of motivation, goal or even reason to live many times. We normally do all that unconsciously and without realizing ...

25 Alan Watts Quotes to Teach You the Transformative Power of Insighs Pin A prolific author and speaker, Alan Wilson Watts is credited with the interpretation and introduction of Eastern philosophy to the Western audience. As his mother’s students were children of missionaries to Asia, Watts began to be fascinated by Asian art, literature, and philosophy; so in time, he learned Chinese and started to explore the fundamental beliefs and practices of religions and philosophies of India and East Asia. After a rigorous research in Zen Buddhism, Watts published one of the first books on the topic –  The Way of Zen  – introducing the burgeoning youth culture to it. Due to all the wisdom it embodies, Watts even suggested that Buddhism could be presented and taught as a form of psychotherapy, and not only as a religion. Alan Watts is the author of more than 25 books on various topics such as philosophy, Eastern and Western religion, natural history, semanti...

That the point that I wish to make most strongly is that behind a vital religious life for the West there has to be a faith which is not expressed in things to which you cling, in ideas, opinions to which you cling in a kind of desperation. Faith is the act of letting go, and that must begin with letting go of God. Let God go. But, you see, this is not atheism in the ordinary sense. Atheism in the ordinary sense is fervently hoping that there isn’t a God. It has become extremely plausible that this trip between the maternity ward and the crematorium is what there is to life. And we still have going into our common sense the 19th century myth, which succeeded the  ceramic  myth in Western history. I call it ‘The myth of the fully automatic model of the universe’. Namely, that it’s stupid, it’s blind force,  it’s Heinkels gyrations , or fortuitous congress of atoms, is at the same vintage as Freud’s libido, the blind surge of lust at the basis of human psychology. But, wh...