by The New Agora | Dec 15, 2021 | Gary Z McGee, The New Agora
www.self-inflictedphilosophy.com The Terrible Joy of Self-conquest By Gary Z McGee “Conquer yourself rather than the world.” ~Descartes In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth was an intricate and confusing maze-like structure built by Daedalus for King...
by The New Agora | Dec 12, 2021 | Gary Z McGee, The New Agora
www.self-inflictedphilosophy.com Five Self-indulgent Psychological Traps and How to Avoid Them By Gary Z McGee “Art, like morality consists in drawing the line somewhere.” ~G.K. Chesterton Drawing the line somewhere is always easier said than done. When it...
by The New Agora | Dec 8, 2021 | Gary Z McGee, The New Agora
www.self-inflictedphilosophy.com The Three-fold Metamorphosis of the Human Spirit By Gary Z McGee “Yes, a sacred Yes is needed, my brothers, a new beginning, a self-propelling wheel, a first motion, for the sport of creation: the spirit now wills...
by The New Agora | Dec 5, 2021 | Gary Z McGee, The New Agora
www.self-inflictedphilosophy.com The Way of The Master: Life as Apprenticeship By Gary Z McGee “It is the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures. Alienating...
by The New Agora | Nov 21, 2021 | Featured, Gary Z McGee, The New Now
www.self-inflictedphilosophy.com The Art of Deathproofing By Gary Z McGee “Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings blessed death.” ~Leonardo Da Vinci Death comes to us all. But life does not, necessarily....
by The New Agora | Nov 6, 2021 | Featured, Gary Z McGee, The New Now
www.self-inflictedphilosophy.com The Power of High Humor By Gary Z McGee “The law of levity is allowed to supersede the law of gravity.” ~R.A. Lafferty A robust character hinges on the Seven Core Virtues (courage, moderation, wisdom, justice, creativity,...
by The New Agora | Oct 28, 2021 | Featured, Gary Z McGee, The New Now
www.self-inflictedphilosophy.com How To Self-Overcome Like Friedrich Nietzsche By Gary Z McGee “Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then search.”...
by The New Agora | Oct 22, 2021 | Featured, Gary Z McGee, The New Now
www.self-inflictedphilosophy.com How to Count Coup on The Gods By Gary Z McGee “The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.” ~Moliere Realize, here at the outset: the only reason the gods exist in the second place is because our...
by The New Agora | Oct 13, 2021 | Featured, Gary Z McGee, The New Now
www.self-inflictedphilosophy.com How to Become a Cosmic Hero “In this kind of ontology of immanence, what we are describing is not a creature who is transformed and who transforms the world in turn in some miraculous ways, but rather a creature who takes more...
