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Posted onJanuary 11, 2023January 14, 2023freedom, habit, happiness, James, reality, self, transformation

Facing the New Year: Optimist or Pessimist?

by Dr. Norris Frederick  As you think about the coming year, or your life in general, are you an optimist or a pessimist?  Is it better to be one rather than the other?   Or…

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Posted onOctober 15, 2022October 22, 2022family, happiness, religion, self, transformation

Gifts, Memory, and Self

“You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just…

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Posted onJune 30, 2022July 2, 2022Aristotle, awareness, beauty, Buddhism, family, happiness, reality, religion, Zen Buddhism

We Are All Philosophers

painting by Neville Herbert-Reynolds By Norris Frederick “I love my life, Dad. “I love your life too, Dad. “I’m just curious about life, not death, I just like thinking about life.” It’s a late May…

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Posted onMay 15, 2021May 20, 2021awareness, death, happiness, reality, self, transformation, wisdom

A Wise Woman and Bottle Trees

by Dr. Norris Frederick Bottle Trees We took a trip to visit our friend Flo recently.  She still lives independently, at age ninety-four, in her house, with the help of a community of friends and…

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Posted onDecember 28, 2020December 30, 2020anxiety, awareness, beauty, happiness, reframing, transformation

A New Year and The Journey

Dr. Norris Frederick I’ve been traveling down interstates 77 and 81 for about 3 hours, and the roar of trucks going 75 mph is getting to me.  I’m on the way to the Virginia mountains…

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Posted onJuly 31, 2020July 31, 2020anxiety, consumerism, freedom, happiness, Stoicism

The Ongoing Pandemic: Illness, Anxiety, Anger and “The View from Above”

Newport Beach, California  By Dr. Norris Frederick Since I wrote my post in early May, “Philosophy for the Pandemic: Stoicism”, the epidemiologists’ warnings about what could happen when stay-at-home restrictions were relaxed have come true:…

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Posted onAugust 17, 2019January 15, 2020consumerism, Epicurus, happiness, pleasure, self

The Life of Stuff and the Life of Simplicity

by Dr. Norris Frederick In the video clip [1], George Carlin asks with his inimitable humor, “That’s the whole meaning of life, isn’t it: trying to find a place to put your stuff?”  In questioning…

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Posted onMarch 7, 2018August 24, 2020happiness, pleasure, reality

The Experience Machine

By Dr. Norris Frederick This semester I’m teaching my course “Philosophy for Life:  What do Great Philosophers and Current Science Have to Say about True Happiness and a Good Life?” [i] The course raises and…

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Posted onNovember 2, 2016August 17, 2020beauty, consumerism, death, Epicurus, happiness, worldview

Philosophy Unlimited: Intelligent Pleasure

by Dr. Norris Frederick One of the joys of travel to another country is the discovery of new landscapes, new customs and cultures, and new people.  We find some ways in which the culture and…

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