Understanding The Self Philosophy Novels & Stories

Siguro nga dapat munang dinahan dahan muna namin ang lahat. Hindi nagpadalos dalos sa bugso ng damdamin upang hindi kami makagawa ng ubod ng kapusukan. Marami akong natutunan. Natutunan na isa na doon ang pahalagahan ang sarili. Isalba hanggat kaya pa. Dahil sa huli, ikaw lang sa sarili mo ang tutulong mismo sa 'yo. Wala nang iba pa.

"When I proudly raised my hand during recitation in class, only to come up with a wrong answer. They mocked me after that. I'm too boastful to be wrong." Napaismid ako nang mahina. "Nakakahiya nga." "My turn." He slightly moved. "Motivation mo in life?" "Perhaps to experience true happiness, one must accept the broken self." I can remember that line clearly. And the activity went on. ***

Hindi pantay ang mga linya, ngunit unti-unting nagtagpo ang mga iyon sa gitna. “Ang konseptong ito ay tungkol sa isang babaeng nasira ang paniniwala sa sarili. Inakala niyang kapag nabasag ang isang bahagi ng buhay niya, wala nang matitirang maganda.” Tahimik ang buong function room.

I felt him tense up when I wrapped my arms around his waist. "Curious saan?" "About the Epicurean philosophy." "What about it?" "Epicurus believed that the greatest good in life is pleasure, some people who doesn't seem to understand his philosophy labelled it as hedonistic when in fact it was far from that, he wasn't talking about luxury, drugs or sex," tumingin siya sa mga mata ko at hinayaan ko lang na malunod ako sa mga titig niya. "What he meant was that we need to live our lives modestly and be aware of our surroundings in order for us to be free from fear and to prevent ourselves from getting hurt or hurting other people — now that was what he meant about the greatest pleasure. In oth