BOOKS

FIVE WEEKS IN THE AMAZON 

this is the DAILY ACCOUNT from my solo backpacking trip into the heart of the Amazon Jungle.  LOOKING FOR MORE THAN A VACATION, i was hoping to ANSWER TO SOME OF my life’s hardest QUESTIONS.  Why did i have to suffer so much as an individual? Weren’t we all meant to be happy? 

THIS BOOK WILL SPEAK TO ANYONE WHO’S TRYING TO UNDERSTAND MORE ABOUT LIFE, TRAVEL, LOVE, AND PURPOSE.  WHILE THERE AREN’T TOO MANY GREAT ADVENTURES LEFT TO DO IN THIS WORLD, BACKPACKING ALONE INTO THE JUNGLE IS DEFINITELY ONE OF THEM.

BEYOND ATARAXIA

HOW DO WE LIVE HAPPILY? WHAT DO WE REALLY KNOW? DO WE HAVE A HUMAN NATURE? HAPPENS WHEN WE DIE?  DO WE HAVE A SOUL? WHAT IS A FRIEND? WHAT IS TRUTH? WHAT IS LOVE? DOES MY LIFE EVEN MATTER? IF SO TO WHOM DOES IT MATTER?

“BEYOND ATARAXIA” IS A PHILOSOPHICAL DISCUSSION ON TOPICS THAT ARE AS RELEVANT TODAY AS THEY WERE  THOUSANDS OF YEARS ago.  I’m not pretending I somehow figured out the answers to life, but I sure as hell know how to interogate myself.

AS ARISTOTLE SAID; “LET NOT THE YOUNGEST SHUN PHILOSOPHY OR THE OLDEST GROW WEARY OF IT.  TO DO SO IS EQUIVALENT TO SAYING EITHER THAT THE TIME FOR A HAPPY LIFE HAS NOT YET COME, OR THAT IS HAS ALREADY PASSED.”  THE ANSWERS TO YOUR PROBLEMS ARE WITHIN YOU TO BE DISCOVERED.  THIS BOOK WILL NOT TELL YOU WHERE TO FIND THEM, BUT PERHAPS IT CAN POINT YOU IN THE DIRECTION YOU SHOULD BE LOOKING.