![]() Eastern philosophy teaches to avoid making attachments to people and things to avoid the inevitable suffering that comes when you lose them. The Stoics teach to only worry about what can be controlled (and not what can't be). Living in the present seems more feasible when believers feel confident they have followed the requisite steps to ultimately attain perpetual salvation later on.Ģ) Philosophy: One of the ultimate goals of true philosophy is to arm thinkers with the wisdom to live more wholly in the present through reason alone. Any worries about the loss of relationships or health or financial security can be assuaged with the knowledge that the suffering here on Earth is only temporary. Historically, religion and philosophy have been the two branches of humanities to tackle this problem:ġ) Religion: The crucial appeal of religion has always been that it offers the ultimate blue-eyes-white-dragon trump card: salvation and life after death. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jokes aside, one of the thorniest existential questions of human nature has always been how we can simply live in the present. ![]()
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