Prospers

Prospers We are an Oakland-based wellness company founded by creatives and guided by empiricism as much as intuition.

Prospers crafts products that help people manifest their potential.

06/23/2016

"Existentialism is a crusade on behalf of forgotten man, of the man who feels, and thinks, and does, against man as an object to be tested for aptitude and achievement, tabulated on charts and reduced to a punch card, experimented upon, casually explained away, utilized, fired, junked, liquidated, cremated, or atomized. Sartre has begun to play his part, to write his part, in this project."


http://www.vqronline.org/vqr/jean-paul-sartre-vqr

[clock] 4-MINUTE READ PUBLISHED: January 5, 2011 Jean-Paul Sartre, 1946. (Photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson)In October 1945, with the tumult of the Second World War and the repressive censorship of the Vichy regime newly ended, Jean-Paul Sartre founded a literary and political quarterly called L...

“All too often, anger becomes an alluring substitute for grieving, promising agency and control when one’s real situatio...
06/21/2016

“All too often, anger becomes an alluring substitute for grieving, promising agency and control when one’s real situation does not offer control… Anger is often well-grounded, but it is too easy for it to hijack the necessary mourning process.”

https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/05/03/martha-nussbaum-anger-and-forgiveness/

“All too often, anger becomes an alluring substitute for grieving, promising agency and control when one’s real situation does not offer control… Anger is often well-grounded, but it is…

"Sooner or later, every man man comes to a crossroads, settle into comfortable mediocrity or seek greatness, entering th...
06/17/2016

"Sooner or later, every man man comes to a crossroads, settle into comfortable mediocrity or seek greatness, entering the wilderness of his own intuition. Unfortunately, most are too blind to recognize opportunity when it knocks, others recognize but only after it's too late."

https://vimeo.com/159069175

A man is fired from his job on Mars. Starring Sean Wing https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2016/05/20/fired-on-mars/

"Vijay Bhade, a Jain woman from West Virginia, entered a fast unto death in 1997. A more recent case was Bhagwati Gada, ...
06/13/2016

"Vijay Bhade, a Jain woman from West Virginia, entered a fast unto death in 1997. A more recent case was Bhagwati Gada, from Texas, who suffered from advanced stage cancer and decided to fast unto death in 2013."

http://theconversation.com/aid-to-dying-what-jainism-one-of-indias-oldest-religions-teaches-us-60828

California now allows terminally ill people to end their lives. In the 2,800-year-old Jain tradition, individuals can choose to fast unto death, when it makes no sense to prolong suffering.

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