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Amreen Dhurue
Jan 5, 20242 min read
3 Philosophy Quotes to Get Out of a Reading Slump
We read philosophy for wisdom, and for life lessons and one of them can be to become a better reader, to read more, or to just read when...
Ayesha Dhurue
Dec 31, 20232 min read
The Power of Boredom: Why Reading Requires Embracing Boredom
Soren Kierkegaard, Plato, Socrates, and Friedrich Nietzsche on Confronting Boredom as a Gateway. In our relentless pursuit of discipline,...
Ayesha Dhurue
Dec 9, 20232 min read
Conversations with Ourselves
Changing the Internal Dialogue with Philosophy and Psychology The dialogue we have with ourselves shapes our landscape, extending to the...
Ayesha Dhurue
Mar 29, 20236 min read
Summarizing Seneca’s Letters from A Stoic
"... an artist derives more pleasure from painting than from having completed a picture." - Seneca I’ve been meaning, for the longest...
Ayesha Dhurue
Feb 14, 20233 min read
Exploring existentialism in Alberto Moravia’s Contempt
Alberto Moravia, even before Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre Alberto Moravia writes about existentialism through his characters. In...
Ayesha Dhurue
Feb 5, 20232 min read
On The Heights of Despair by E. M. Cioran
I insist you find your bearings in less intense writers before plunging into the mental construct that is the philosophy (or...
Ayesha Dhurue
Jan 17, 20222 min read
Literary Theme: Existential Horror
A few books that portray the theme of horror. Existential horror relates to the meaning of human existence, our notions of reality, our...
Ayesha Dhurue
Oct 4, 20214 min read
The Stranger by Albert Camus
In Albert Camus’s The Stranger, you are put in front of the immediate ambiguity of the world. The kind that you experience in ordinary...
Ayesha Dhurue
Mar 4, 20214 min read
On communicating freely: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
One of the things that we don’t consider we can change about ourselves is our ability to speak. Speaking to others is a skill we can...
Ayesha Dhurue
Feb 12, 20213 min read
On friendship: Letters From A Stoic by Seneca & Khalil Gibran's The Prophet
This article is about one of the most thoughtful and down-to-earth books I’ve ever read. It’s a non-fiction book of short essays. It’s...
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