A person should never foreclose oneself from experiencing opportunities to learn. American poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) advised, ‘The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.’ A euphoric experience – the rapturous joys of life – is available to a sincere person whom perceives truth, statements that fit properly into a system taken as a whole (coherence).

People who possess a thirst for knowledge, are keen observers, and possess a compassionate heart, hold the requisite key for learning and sharing their knowledge with other people.

Using reason without applying it to experience only leads to theoretical illusions. Ideas derived from real world experiences lead to acquisition of knowledge, and the accumulation of time-tested principles leads to wisdom.

The ability to experience bliss requires the gift of attentive awareness, curiosity, and constant learning. We are ultimately the product of what we want – our personal obsessions – and how we think. Thoughts merge into feelings that determine if we are happy or sad. Feelings can manifest into thoughts that drive our ambitions and guide our personal actions, which enable us to live an intensified life.

There is more than one road to spiritual salvation. We discover a philosophical way of living by encountering the world, culling knowledge from all available resources, and thinking reverently about life.

Schoolbooks and formal education does not teach a student how to raise his or her emotional and social intelligence proficiency. A person must resort his or her own devices – their sense of agency and self-esteem – in order to succeed in an increasingly complex world.

Examination of our past is never time-wasting. Reverberations from the past provide learning rubrics for living today.

Nature endowed human beings with two teleological components that define our essential humanity: consciousness and memory. Consciousness enables people to make decisions, and memory allows us to learn and share our accumulated knowledge. Cognitive endowments of consciousness and knowledge allow people to ascribe a meaning to existence, by establishing a direction and purpose to their life.

Living is a creative and active process of diligent learning that entails industrious human action, attentive awareness, and thoughtful reflection. Learning is one facet of human beings innate capacity that can provide a sense of worthiness to human life.