How is it really? This seemingly simple question is at the root of many of life’s philosophies, and answers are often based on religion or a call to blind faith. But when we truly ask ourselves this question, we are asking about some fundamental truths about existence—truths that don’t cross or conflict with the bounds of religion, science, creed, or nationality. 

Philosopher’s Corner is not a traditional philosophy of life; it is about revelations that we have closed our minds to and lost sight of both in the Western and Eastern worlds, and it is about...