The idea of mental energy makes intuitive sense and is present in mystical traditions. However, there is little evidence that pleasure and sex decrease it.

The craving that causes suffering is not due to seeking pleasure, but by the demands of the ego.

The idea that we deserve the best, as well as craving happiness and virtue, are traps of the ego.

A writer’s Way of the Warrior has intellectual honesty, self-reliance, humility, courage, restrain and personal power.

The Way of the Warrior is a philosophy of life consisting on acting with focused attention

Since there is no consciousness after death, we experience nothing, so there is nothing to fear.

This has been my quest for self-knowledge, self-transformation and meaning I started developing my philosophy of life when I left...