What's the point of existence?

In this way many take part in being one.

'Yes, but they (Wurst and Knaust and Pripasov) will tell you that your conception of existence results from the collective effect of all your sensations and is therefore a result of sensations.

The citizen's movement Wake Up Madagascar works to expose the realities of daily life for Malagasy people.

There is no reason which does not take a position in the ethical sphere, in the philosophical mystery of what we are.

Wurst actually says that without the senses there can be no perception of existence.'

It investigates the question of Being by asking about the being for whom Being is a question.

Now play is not simply a process. Experts in play will tell you that actually it's a way of being.

Eastern philosophy has no counterpart to Plato's great chain of being, which places humans above all other animals.

Other societies present us with different and often disconcerting ways of being human.

For when we touch the heart of matter, we also touch the hidden order of Being beyond scientific understanding.

Anthropologists have noted that worship is a universal urge, hardwired by God into the very fiber of our being, an inbuilt need to connect with God.

O, Creator! O, the Objective! The source of our being and the end of our journey, you are also the breaker of our hearts.

The most fundamental perception that of existence is not received through the senses, for there is no special organ to convey that perception.'

... Book of Parables Chapters 37 71 of the book of Book of Enoch are referred to as the Book of Parables.

What is taught on TV, and in the streets, that makes young boys feel they have to be this certain side of being a man?

And it is often, perhaps, the very otherness of our enemies which can give us intimations of that utterly mysterious transcendence which is God.

That is to say, everyone lived poorly equally, but inasmuch as they all lived this way this everyday misery did not particularly bother anyone.

To be exiled from this last refuge represents the most brutal decentering of his being, a burning that reaches all the way to the core of creativity.

The Internet, mobile phones, and other such achievements of progress have become essential aspects of human existence, and have simplified communication between people and integrated them into a new space.

Today, especially in America, many Christians, so called Creationists, still argue that mankind's origins are to be found in the early chapters of Genesis, not in any scientific discovery.

Genesis Chapter one, Verse 29 , where God talks about legumes and seeds, and on one more stanza about green plants, ostensibly missing is meat.

It means familiarization with a new way of being, new way of perceiving things, which is more in adequation with reality, with interdependence, with the stream and continuous transformation, which our being and our consciousness is.

Since the dawn of human consciousness, we have contemplated our own mortality and dreamed of ways of overcoming it. Until recently, achieving control over our own longevity was the stuff of fairy tales, disconnected from actual scientific progress.

Since the dawn of human consciousness, we have contemplated our own mortality and dreamed of ways of overcoming it.

Poet, writer, activist Eve Ensler lived in her head. In this powerful talk from TEDWomen, she talks about her lifelong disconnection from her body and how two shocking events helped her to connect with the reality, the physicality of being human.