Philosopher for Hire
The Road need not be walked alone
The Road need not be walked alone
Hire Your Own Philosopher
Hire Your Own Philosopher
Find guidance in the Way
Find guidance in the Way
Welcome friends and fellow philosophers.
I am MarQuese Daisean Liddle, MFA in Creative Writing, author and editor here at Wild Isle Literature, and a lover of wisdom.
If you’re reading this, you too may be one of Truth’s few true admirers. If so, then you know that a life of unrequited love for Truth is unbearable; yet you cannot give up the pursuit. If this describes you, someone lost and looking for his proper Path that puts him in accord with himself, society, and the world, then perhaps I can help to connect you to wiser minds of the past who can guide you through life’s winding journey.
My philosophical background is one of self study. What began as a decade of training in traditional Chinese martial arts become a study of Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Zen, Stoicism, Jungian Analytics, and Nietzschean philosophizing with a hammer. My learning did not, has not, and will never end there. As I continue to read, write, live, learn, and grow, I hope to share what I discover on the adventure of my own life with you who dare to embark on your own journeys. Amor Fati.
Confucius
The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it. Go home and search for it, and you will have an abundance of teachers.
Jordan B Peterson
Interest is a spirit beckoning from the unknown, a spirit calling from outside the "walls" of society. Pursuit of individual interest means hearkening to this spirit's call, journeying outside the protective walls of childhood and adolescent group identification, and returning to rejuvenate society.
Takuan Soho
All existents are ultimately mental constructions. Therefore having desires is not the Way, yet abandoning them to be desireless is not the Way either. The point is that the Way is nothing in particular; it is Just so.
Friedrich Nietzsche
But in the very fact that the ascetic ideal has meant so much to Man, there is expressed the fundamental feature of Man’s will, his horror vacui: he needs a goal—and he will rather desire oblivion than not desire at all.—Am I not understood?—Have I been understood?
Miyamoto, Musashi
Do not regret what you have done.
Life should not be about regrets. It can be easy to look back and think of things you should have done or decisions you could have made, but the past is gone. Regretting it gets you nowhere. After all, we don’t know what the future holds and this journey you’re on my be exactly what takes you where you truly wish to go.
epictetus
‘Tell us your secrets.’
‘I refuse, as this is up to me.’
‘I will put you in chains.’
‘What’s that you say, friend? It’s only my leg you will chain, not even God can conquer my will.’
‘I will throw you in prison.’
‘Correction—it is my body you will throw there.’
‘I will behead you.’
‘Well, when did I ever claim that mine was the only neck that couldn’t be severed?’
Siddhartha Gautama
As a sweet-smelling lotus
Pleasing to the heart
May grow in a heap of rubbish
Discarded along the highway,
So a disciple of the Fully Awakened One
Shines with wisdom
Amid the rubbish heap
Of blind, common people.
Carl Jung
If we call everything that God does or allowed "good," then evil is good too, and "good" becomes meaningless. But suffering, whether it be Christ's passion or the suffering of the world, remains the same as before. Stupidity, sin, sickness, old age, and death continue to form the fark foil that sets off the joyful splendour of life.
Zhuangzi
Confucius went along for sixty years and transformed sixty times. What he first considered right he later considered wrong. He could never know if what he presently considered right were not fifty-nine times wrong.
Sun Tzu
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.
If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.
If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
Yamamoto, Tsunetomo
One must edge forward like the inchworm, bit by bit. The gods and Buddhas, too, first started with a vow.
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