PHILOSOPHY

Control what you can; accept what you cannot.

Suffering arises from craving and attachment; freedom comes from awareness and compassion.

Meaning is not found; it is created through choice and responsibility.

Choose actions that maximize overall well-being.

Flow with reality; force creates resistance.

The good life is simple pleasure, friendship, and freedom from unnecessary fear.

Social harmony through moral cultivation, proper relationships, and ritual practice.

Life has no inherent meaning; all values are human constructions.

Truth is what works; ideas are tools for navigating reality.

Life is meaningless, but we must embrace it anyway—without false hope or despair.

Become a person of good character; right action flows from virtue.

Human beings have inherent worth and the capacity for self-improvement through reason.

Reject convention; live according to nature and virtue alone.

Reason is the primary source of knowledge; truth can be discovered through logic.

Study experience as it appears; bracket assumptions to see things as they are.