Existentialism

Jean-Paul Sartre was born in 1905 in Paris, France and is considered to be one of the main popularizers of existential thinking. For Existentialists, life has no fundamental meaning or truth beyond what is created by our decisions and actions within it. 

The core of Existential thought is t...

We can indeed transform and transmute the feeling of fear within us. The reason we fear being ourselves most of the times it is because we live our lives based on other people’s expectation of us. Our fears have made us to rob ourselves of the freedom to make the right choices in life and so beca...

• We have an irrational fear of acknowledging our own mortality. We avoid thinking about it because we think it will be depressing. In fact, reflecting on mortality often has the opposite effect - invigorating us more than saddening us. Why? Because it gives us clarity.
• If you had onl...