As we stand queasily at the dawn of new globalism, advancing technologies also tempt us to envision permanent solutions to unsettling unknowns. The younger generation, also, may continue to carry lightly life’s burden, on youthful shoulder, joyfully creating a new World. However, a perfect being exists, and his way of life, based, as we know from, on ritual prescriptions designed to ensure the purity and blamelessness of the soul. Each life is a point of view on to the Universe. Living means being forced to reason out our inexorable circumstances. So if the people of the antiquated generation now leaving the World are often shocked to see swept away the archaic rigid prohibitions they were brought up n, they may leave in peace. God as one than whom there is nothing superior. God is the most adequate conceivable object of worship; there is no possibility of another reality beyond him to which he is inferior or subordinate and which would thus be an even more worthy recipient of man’s devotion. Life, after all, may not have been so hard for them, not so hard, perhaps, as for the younger generation. One cannot ask of the most perfect conceivable being, as one can of a first cause, necessary being, unmoved mover, or designer of the World (supposing such to exist) whether humans ought to worship him. #RyanPhillippe 1 of 10

Man does not have a nature, but a history. Man is no thing, but a drama. His life is something that has to be chosen, made up as he goes along, and a man consists in that choice and invention. Each man is the novelist of himself, and though he may choose between being an original writer and an imitation, he cannot escape choosing. He is condemned to be Free. Freedom is not an activity exercised by an entity that already possessed a fixed being before and apart from that activity. Being free means being able to be something else than what one is and not being able to settle down once and for all in any determined nature. Unlike all the other things in the Universe which have a pre-fixed being given to them, man is the only and almost inconceivable reality that exists without having an irrevocable pre-fixed being. It is not only in economics but also in metaphysis that man must earn his living [ganarse la vida, win his life]. Each person has one best choice, and this is one’s imperative vocation or mission. Mission means the awareness that each individual has of one’s authentic self which one is called upon to realize. The idea of mission is a constitutive ingredient of the human condition. #RyanPhillippe 2 of 10

The being of human is at one and the same time natural and extranatural, a sort of ontological centaur. The moral life is the authentic one, the one that stays faithful to a life project or vocation; the immoral life is to abandon oneself to transient, outside influences, to drift instead of realizing a personal destiny. The choice of one personality out of the various possible personalities engages the whole of a man’s reasoning powers and requires perpetual lucidity and concentration. It is by intelligent reckoning with one’s circumstances that an individual gains one’s being and becomes oneself. Reasoned choice is constitutive of human personality. Love illuminates the essence of an, therefore, the lovability of others. This is because love opens the heart. Instead of perception, which observes, the heart knows. The mind thinks and argues, but the heart knows and continues. So even when people make mistake, we love them. Thoughts tell us one thing, but the heart tells us something else. The mind can be critical and disagree, but the heart is loving no matter what. The heart does not put any conditions on what is out there. Only the mind does that. Love makes no demands. #RyanPhillippe 3 of 10

Principles can only come from the understanding itself as it is before and apart from any acquaintance with sensible things. From these purely intellectual principles may be deduced consequences that form a whole World of intellectual determinations, that is, of ideal objects. The activity of knowing used to seem to consist in an effort to reflect, mirror, or copy in our mind the World of real things, but it turns out to be just the opposite, namely, the invention, construction, or fabrication of an unreal World. A key to making Love unconditional is the willingness to forgive. With forgiveness, events and people are re-contextualized as simply limited—not bad or unlovable. With humility, we are willing to relinquish our perception of a past event. Life is always a problem, an insecurity, a disaster with spectators. For instance, in Hoboken, New Jersey USA, on 29 September 2016, at least three people were killed and more than 108 injured, some critically, when a transit trained crashed into the station Thursday morning, leaving twisted piled of metal and bricks and causing part of the highly trafficked terminal to collapse. However, the desperate measures society takes to struggle against perpetual foundering constitute human culture. #RyanPhillippe 4 of 10

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual human. Culture is radically insecure and a constant effort is required to prevent it from lapsing into barbarism and torpor. That effort is beyond most people, who can merely contribute to it by accepting leadership of a liberal aristocracy, which does most of humanity’s works. The fact that humans have no essence nor fixed nature but must choose oneself implies their inequality. Because of the being of human is not given to individuals but is a pure imaginary possibility, the human species is of an instability and variability that makes it incomparable with animal species. Humans are enormously unequal, in spite of what the egalitarians of the last three centuries affirmed and what archaic-fashioned folk of this century go on affirming. We have to pray for a miracle to see the truth about the situation, and we must surrender all of our opinions about the matter. We can distinguish interindividual from social relations. In the former, which include love and friendship, individuals behave as rational and responsible persons, whereas in social relationships, which include customs, laws, and the state, we encounter irrational and impersonal, the imposed and anonymous. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 10

There is no collective soul because society, the collectivity, is the great soulless one, because it is humanity naturalized, mechanized, and is if mineralized. Everything that is social or collective is subhuman, intermediate between genuine humanity and nature; it is a quasi-nature. Nevertheless, social relationships have their uses; they make other people’s behavior predictable, they carry on inherited traditions, and by automatizing part of our lives, they set us free for creation in the important interindividual sphere. These gains of socialization need constant defense, from human’s antisocial drives are never vanquished. Society is neither spontaneous nor self-perpetuating. It has to be invented and reinvented by a minority which, however, must be able to procure the cooperation of the masses. The elite is essential to any society; by proposing a project for collective living, it founds the community and then governs and directs it. There is no political healthy when the government functions without the active cooperation of majorities. Perhaps this why politics seems to me a second-class occupation. #RyanPhillippe 6 of 10

Everything in the World is strange and marvelous to well-opened eyes. This faculty of wonder is the delight that refused to your football “fan,” and, on the other hand, is the one which leads the intellectual human through life in the perpetual ecstasy of the vision. Do not look for answers; instead, let go of the feeling behind the question. When we are surrendered on the feelings behind the question, we can let go of any other feeling behind the question, we can let go of any other feelings that we might also have about what seems to be the problem. When we are finally and fully surrendered on all components, the answer will be there waiting for us. We will not have to look for it. Consider how simple and easy this is as compared to the mind’s long, drawn-out, inefficient attempts at problem solving. Usually the mind hunts and pecks endlessly, fumbling around with first this possible answer and then that one. The reason the mind cannot decide is because it is looking in the wrong place. A mistaken assumption is likely to lead, along with the observations, to contradictor conclusions, and when this happens we are forced to modify the assumptions, in particular, to look further afield than we did at first for possibly relevant factor.  #RyanPhillippe 7 of 10

In business, likewise, our attempts to predict the future in light of ambiguous odds often backfires.  As core feelings emerge more openly and vulnerably, and transparency is allowed to play a more central role in the encounter being connected intimate become more important. Let us say that we disagree with our mate on which movie to see. We look to see what the feeling is being the problem. In this case, let us say that we find the feeling of anger and resentment, specifically that we feel resentful about the lack of romantic time spent together. What we really want tonight is affectionate time spent together. As we let it be okay inside ourselves that what we really want is affectionate togetherness, it suddenly dawns on us that we do not want to go to the movie at all. We just want to be together. Or the opposite might happen. We might find that the feeling behind wanting to go to a movie is gear, because we want to avoid spending the evening talking to and being closed to our mate. One begins to understand that the feelings we have built up are unpleasant. The resentment being felt needs to be understood so one will feel less guilty and has to be expressed to our mate. #RyanPhillippe 8 of 10

Communication, at its best, is communion and articulation functioning as one It is the electricity and circuit board of the relationship, optimally flowing when it is emotional components are illuminated, respected, and fully connected. We create a sharp division between our present, fixed self, and our past, evolving selves. We always think we have steeled into ourselves, and we are always wrong. The most interesting finding is that at every age, we feel like we are done with our own evolution. It is like the present is what we have achieved after all those long years of changing, and we are done. However, this is a misconception. Since people who naturally crave neatness tend to get nervous around unfamiliar situations, positive intergroup experiences help those with a high need for closure feel less anxious. When we assemble, we take the uncertainties in our lives and create something out of them. Take a guess as to how much you have changed over the last ten years on a scale of 1 to 10. In terms of values and preferences, most people predicted significantly less change than they recalled experiencing. However, their personalities were starkly different ten years earlier, yet they foresaw little change ahead.   #RyanPhillippe 9 of 10

Living in two places, being a part of two cultures, and social alienation are just some of the possible sources of creative work. It is not wrong to want to overpower another under certain conditions, such as a fiercely competitive, yet still mutually respectful, game of tennis. Nor is in wrong to exult in our achievements at such times. However, there is also a deeper game to be played, a game in which far more is at stake than our ego’s status. This is not about blind honor, wherein we are willing to trade our life or make enormous sacrifices for an ideal we have never properly questioned or examined. It is about doing what honors our very being. There is also tremendous freedom, the kind of freedom that is found through making optimal use of limitation (as in the best of intimate relationships).  When you and another are truly connected, emotionally and otherwise, the arising of emotional disconnection is not a problem because there is enough trust and safety to openly communicate and explore this more deeply, which almost inevitably leads to more connection, thereby reinforcing and deepening. Most people expect to change little in the future, despite knowing that they changed a lot in the past. #RyanPhillippe 10 of 10