The answer to your life doesn’t lie in your next checkout purchase. The dignity of your being isn’t defined by what device, car, or bag you own. And as you read this, an inner conflict may arise: No, everything around me bases its value on material things. How could I adopt a different set of values when the whole world seems built to comply with consumerism? First of all, this writing isn’t meant to be a guideline. It’s my personal attempt to document my train of thought on

While the question of multiculturalism became a matter in the post-modern world, mostly  the researchers and policy analysts asserted that the possibility of multiculturalism is naturally associated with religious diversity. I begin with Charles Taylor’s view on multiculturalism  through the lens of recognition. He argues that the acknowledgement of a group’s unique cultural  identity by the authority is a fundamental human need for individual and collective manifestation. T

Imagine you find a phone lying on the ground. Someone must have dropped it without realizing. What would you do? Most people would say the right thing to do is to return it to its owner, perhaps by checking the emergency contacts or handing it to the police. That is what our sense of morality tells us. Returning the phone seems like the “good” and “right” course of action. But you could also choose the opposite path: keep the phone for yourself or sell it for a quick profit.

You ever notice how most of the battles we fight aren’t out there, but in here? Points at head. It’s strange. You can be sitting quietly in your room, not talking to anyone, and still feel like you’re in a full-blown war with yourself. Between what you want, what you need, and what you know you should probably stop wanting. Sometimes I think we forget how powerful desire actually is. It’s like this quiet general giving us orders we don’t even question. “Buy that.” “Message th

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. - Ralph Waldo Emerson – Self-Reliance Essay, 1841   Being a true self can be grueling, especially in modern society. We seem to be overly dependent on how others perceive us, often unwittingly so, since our lives are more exposed publicly with just one click on social media. This makes our online presence more believable than our real ones. It's

Humans are creatures that have received special treatment since the beginning. We are the dregs of the earth that are given life and freedom to choose the direction of our lives compared to other creations. Since the beginning, freedom and humans are two things that are closely related, cannot be separated and separated. The Creator breathed half of His breath, half of His appearance, and half of His intelligence and wisdom into humans to become His 'representatives' in this

Introduksi Pada era globalisasi yang terdorong oleh proses digitalisasi, kita mungkin sering mendengar tentang pernyataan banyak orang bahwa untuk bisa mensyukuri nikmat ataupun menikmati kehidupan, kita harus mencari makna atau hikmah dari segala yang kita alami. Pernyataan-pernyataan semacam itu muncul karena selama ini kita hanya melakukan dan mengkonsumsi narasi informasi secara repetitif, untuk menghilangkan rasa kejenuhan yang selama ini kita rasakan dalam kehidupan. Se

The world is not a level playing field. It is a pyramid—grand, towering, and merciless. At its peak sit the core nations, dictating global trade, finance, and technology. At its base lie the peripheries, where resources are dug and workers labor for wages that barely sustain them. And in between, suspended in ambiguity, stand the semi-peripheries: restless, aspiring, yet tethered to the same structures that hold them down. Immanuel Wallerstein’s World-System Theory  remains o

Greek mythology is often seen as nothing more than old tales of gods and goddesses, far removed from our lives. Yet the story of Eros and Psyche is the opposite, it mirrors the journey of the modern humans. Behind this love story lies profound questions about the soul, love, trust, knowledge, and suffering. Psyche: the Restless Soul Psyche  means soul.  From the beginning, she is described as so beautiful that people worship her instead of Aphrodite. But beauty becomes her bu

Frithjof Schuon was a Swiss comparative religion philosopher, regarded as one of the greatest thinkers of comparative religious studies. He was part of a movement called traditionalism, famously known as perennial philosophy, alongside other important figures like René Guénon and Aldous Huxley. This movement aims to counteract the rising crisis of modernity by reviving traditional wisdom and striving to reach truth across different cultural, religious, and spiritual backgroun

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