Do we learn to live or do we just live?

If you miss a rare opportunity to, say, try a new drug that promises to improve your performance in some area of ?your daily activities, or if you notice that the taxi is late because it left the trucks of the fire department pass in front and you will arrive late for the meeting, you get upset, nervous, angry? Speak the truth, do you often ask why a situation is occurring or only acts by conditioned reflex of your mind? Whenever something similar happens, and that is within our area of ?interest, we tend to have a quick response - and the human brain is very fast, decorated by our brain; We are scheduled to return our position without even thinking about it. When the damage can be greater, we eventually question the paradigms that guide our decisions and those of others, with better or worse results, without a theory about what we do "(CHAUí, 1995). Thinking about these conditioned reflexes, and acting in an active way to shape them in order to make them more efficient, free of external noises, and more consistent, can be done through a consecrated tooling, philosophy or, friendship by wisdom, word Introduced by Pythagoras. Since the 7th century BC, there have been people who have been busy questioning the nature of things, and there have been proposals by philosophers known as Pre-Socratics, such as those who developed their ideas in the Greek colony of Ionia, now Turkey, who saw a world in Movement, whether it be the water that freezes and evaporates, the air that is not palpable, the fire that turns what it burns, or those from southern Italy, see the numbers as the essence of everything that exists, or that saw the World as the oneness of an Absolute-Being, God, immutable and eternal. We still have the Atomistic School, in which the idea has developed that there are several non-divisible elements that form things. Yes, the search comes from a long time ago.

The most usual form of holding on to our impetus comes in the contemporary West from religion , whatever its denomination. We have, however, a period in which a thought flourished about the reason for things and the consequence of our actions, which also permeated this aspect. The union of science, through mathematics, with theology, which began with Pythagoras, symbolized religious philosophy in Greece, the Middle Ages, and modern times until Kant, with Plato, St. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, and Kant an intimate blend of Religion and reasoning (RUSELL, 1967). We can paint Augustine of Hippo, who in book III of "De libero arbitrio" uses the theology of the apostle Paul to gather optimistic arguments about men and their autonomy and ability to stand up on their own (TAURISANO, 2007). In time, if we disregard the weight of religion on philosophical aspects, we can still consider that it is always healthier to measure expectations, we can always relearn to expect less, using as the guiding thread of this action the feeling that the human being is best able to fight against own limits, love; The same is simple and free from the bonds of time, for even Augustine, evoking the teachings of Epicurus, did not define what would be time. While validating our existence, Emerson reminds us, life is a journey, not a destination.

Forever is composed of nows - Emily Dickinson

Freedom referenced is autonomy in relation to time, either by weight of the past or anxiety for the future, a self-sovereignty considered not only as an infinite possibility of action, but on many occasions, and this is as important as that, as well as a primordial choice of reaction, freedom removes insecurity, which leads the human being to pass directly from the past to the future, ignoring the only moment in which he is really alive - it is in the present. Time is an illusion, what you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is (TOLLE, 1999). Perhaps we can draw on the perspective that what you must believe in does not depend on the attitudes you have or believe you have, at other times (HEDDEN, 2015). Life is composed of moments of existence, called the present, and what we call time is the set of these moments.

Naturally, all freedom also brings a detachment from some perception that has become entrenched and which is often also a warm and pleasant place, a comfort zone that tells us in a safe way that we come from a certain society and that we will die for this society. We are not always willing to act in the name of free will and roll up our sleeves, as when we need to come and scan this same society, understand, publicize, and vote for this candidate, preferring to say that “Those politicians are birds of a feather”, Then I will vote for null, reflection of our origin and destiny that are perceived in works of authors like Nietzsche and permeate contemporary philosophy. Such modernity generated such a humanism, also referred to as the birth of modern philosophy, which paints a human being linked to the natural phenomena that in the bifurcation with Kant, Rousseau refuted the reductionist logic of the atheists of the movement of particles, And also of the deists who thought they could limit God's nature to human nature (ALMEIDA JR, 2008), describing a conception of religion not limited to their philosophical reasoning, recognizing elements outside the limits of reason, such as faith and conscience. Being beyond pure reason is same as doubting its fullness for the understanding of things, absolute certainty, only one, that there will always be some change. Ability to think and the will to believe are therefore not self-excluding phenomena.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts - Bertrand Russell

Ability to think and discern becomes increasingly crucial in a scenario of rapid and constant technological evolution, which rewards technical achievements with profits and amounts never earned, which has, however, a growing proximity to the line between what can be done, and what should be done. Genetic manipulation, electronic privacy control, freedom and social mobility, etc., show advances that illuminate apparent theory victories, and which also carry, possibilities of rather bitter defeats. It is evident that competent science has brought comfort to great strides. It is undeniable that serious religion illuminates the footsteps of man. It is therefore appropriate to recall Einstein's teaching that science without religion is lame, and that religion without science is blind. Of course, the human being is a resilient species and shows that he is aware that his ways may not be walking perfectly, as physicists question the potential hazards of the atom and the greenhouse effect; Biologists question whether genetically modified organisms pose a risk to mankind, whether cloning techniques are morally lawful, and even if slowly, prove a change in perspective (FERRY, 2006). Choosing carefully how to direct the technical-scientific tools may seem like a sacrifice, however, sacrifice has its origin in something sacred, sacral, so true sacrifice is to respect what is sacred in the other, for complete and true happiness, is to be in full synchrony with all that is around us - refers to the Taoist fulfillment of southern Asia, widely diffused nowadays, but not always absorbed in its essence, "??????" - Namaste, the God who dwells within me, salutes the God who Dwells within you.

The seven deadly sins responsible for social injustices are: wealth without work; Unscrupulous pleasures; Knowledge without wisdom; Trade without morality; Politics without idealism; Religion without sacrifice and science without humanism - Mahatma Gandhi