In an effort to facilitate more people (including us) leaning into new sensations that lead to pleasure, we are compiling a list of sensations worth exploring so we can turn it into some kind of epic art project that we can pass out to our friends, strangers, people soliciting merchandise or religion at our door, and more specifically, you (our readers).
Read MoreI like to think of it like this: if my life were a work of fiction and there were an author writing the story, there must be small parts of my life that act as foreshadowing to the important events in my future.
Read MoreMy main resolution for 2019 is all about pleasure; it rejects the expectations that society, my friends and family, and even I have put on myself. It is the resolution that has been hidden underneath every resolution about weight loss or changing my body that I have ever made:
Read MoreReal Hedonism is not a sex cult.
Read MoreSlowly I have come to know that the magic of Harry Potter isn’t in the wands, it’s in a group of people living their lives together. Fighting together. Failing together. Learning together.
Read MoreIt turned ten minutes of would be pee anxiety into ten minutes of quiet chuckling and a fun conversation.
Read MoreWhat we spend our attention on changes who we are and shapes the world around us.
Read MoreThe gift of the founding fathers was not the constitution; it was the spirit of revolution.
Read MoreIf we don’t know how to enjoy ourselves, we certainly won’t know how to create paradise.
Read More“When I got good at my blindfolded walks, I felt like a wizard.“
Read MoreThrough the lens of hedonism, it's possible to see the value in all belief systems, as they are all simply different ways that humans pursue pleasure.
Read More“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Read MoreBy referring to ‘devotion to pleasure’, we put the importance not simply on acquiring the things that give us pleasure, but on the benefit of cultivating pleasure in all of our relationships.
Read MoreThe least conscious form of Hedonism is exactly how babies seem to experience the world: good or bad stimulus followed by knee-jerk reactions.
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