Consider the ego as a prison of our true inner being. The ego produces all our self-serving thoughts that are centered on finding satisfaction and pleasure. We are trapped in the cave's shadows game by an ego that judges what we like or don’t like about everything, all the time, often disregarding the needs of others.

The Invited Philosopher Francesco The Menu First Course: Italian seasoned turkey burgers with organic mixed greens salad in balsamic vinaigrette Second Course: Cauliflower gnocchi with three cheese tomato sauce Third course: 4 cheese plate with Norwegian crackers and Italian Sourdough bread Drinks: Italian Prosecco* and Wine *Courtesy of Francesco The Philosophy I invite you to read about Plato’s Allegory of the Cave here, here and here, and all over the Internet.  Different translations add a little to the essence of

the story or message. Consider also watching some of the movies that use Plato’s Cave as their main theme: The Matrix, The Truman Show, Dark City, Cube, The Comformist. You will find all movies in Amazon, Cube does not have good reviews, but The Comformist goes in my bucket list!           The story The story describes prisoners in a cave chained since birth in such a way that they only see shadows in the wall of the cave, shadows…

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