Garden as Philosophical Concept

I am blessed with two big gardens: Pronoia Garden and Aletheia Garden.

There are so many beautiful quotes about garden and gardening, here I chose three:

Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized.

Allan Armitage

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Jorge Luis Borges

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Glory

In my book "Flatland Blues" I ask myself and readers few times who and how long is going to remember us? I pointed that noone remember any more actors from the silent movies or Nobel prize winners? And only these days I have found this part in Albert Camus's "The Myth of Sisyphus".

"The actor’s realm is that of the fleeting. Of all kinds of fame, it is known, his is the most ephemeral. At least, this is said in conversation. But all kinds of fame are ephemeral. From the point of view of Sirius, Goethe’s works in ten thousand years will be dust and his name forgotten. Perhaps a handful of archologists will look for “evidence” as to our era. That idea has always contained a lesson. Seriously meditated upon, it reduces our perturbations to the profound nobility that is found in indiference. Above all, it directs our concerns toward what is most certain—that is, toward the immediate. Of all kinds of fame the least deceptive is the one that is lived"

This session resonates with me not just because of the same topic we discuss but also because I agree with Camus regarding actors. I believe that is one of the worst jobs in the entire universe and kind of punishment.

Camus also writes: "A writer has some hope even if he is not appreciated."

Sisyphus (1548–49) by Titian, Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain

What a View!

Nature: Abundance of Joy!

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Camus and Happy Sisyphus

“The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

After a lot of searches for truth, I find absurdism the most reasonable to follow.

Albert Camus, the Nobel Prize-winning French philosopher and author, introduced the concept of the absurd in the 1940s.

The quote describes absurdism, the idea that life is absurd and irrational. Absurdism Quote says that humans want meaning and value in life, but the universe does not give any. The universe is full of chaos and conflict that humans cannot understand. Here, Albert Camus quotes absurdism by saying that life has no meaning or value in itself, but humans can make their meaning and value through their choices and actions. This is one of the most insightful Albert Camus quotes. (Source: Albert Camus Quotes: Find Meaning in Life’s Absurdity).

Albert Camus absurdism quotes close; they are not just words, they are weapons of freedom. (Source: 35 Best Albert Camus Absurdism Quotes That Capture the Heart of the Absurd (2025) - Snugfam).

“Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.”

― Albert Camus, The Stranger

Euler’s equation and identity

Literary Shakespeare in numbers!

e^(i π) + 1 = 0 & e^(i x) = cos x + i sin x)

Richard Feynman called 'the most remarkable formula in mathematics' and which has even featured in the Simpsons.

Beautiful lecture by Oxford Mathematics on Euler's equation.

Photo from: Euler’s Identity: the Most Beautiful Equation in Mathematics – ThatsMaths

Visualisation and Visioning

"Visualizing is a mental process governed by the reasoning or conscious mind; visioning is a spiritual process, governed by intuition, or the superconscious mind. The student should train his mind to receive these flashes of inspiration, and work out the "divine pictures," through definite leads.".

"Man should make an art of thinking. The Master Thinker is an artist, and is careful to paint only the divine designs upon the canvas of his mind; and he paints these pictures with masterly strokes of power and decision, having perfect faith that there is no power to mar their perfection, and that they shall manifest in his life, the ideal made real."

From: "The Game of Life and How to play It" (1925) by Florence Scovel Shinn.

"The Unitarians have such nice children's parties", a drawing published in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, 1904

Illustrated by Florence Scovel Shinn

Questions

"There is an answer to every question, as long as the question is of no significance or if it is idiotic.

The real question has no answer."

"De Bello Civili / Civil War Within" by S. Basara, translated by Randall A. Major (1998)

The Thinker (French: Le Penseur), by Auguste Rodin