These 4 Simple Questions Will Change How You Think About Everything 

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I have already asked these questions before, but having a mindset like this kept me from living with joy because I kept on asking things I could never answer. So what I did, is to follow my intuition and conscience. To follow what I believe is right and for the good of the people around me. We can just live with all these questions but at the end of the day, these questions don't matter at all. We just have to live and try our best each day not just for ourselves but for the ones we love.

You've helped more people than you'll ever know, Pursuit of Wonder. Thank you

I like your sincerity, sometimes I feel as though I'm the only one that thinks this way, always doubting, always blinking, always questioning what if and what not.

The video is 16 minutes and 32 seconds but took me 3 full hours to watch it... Made a bunch of theories along the way. This video is really amazing.😃👌

Sigh... Every time Pursuit of Wonder uploads a new video, it gets rid of my anxiety, but it will give you an even bigger existential crisis... :')

Your videos always remind me of how amazing, incredible and absurd our reality is.

Damn, “the how do we know” portion is exactly what I was trying to get my family understand when I was little but my explaining skills weren’t very good so they thought I sounded crazy

I laughed maniacally at the existentialism. To me its humorous to ask such questions with such unintelligible answers. Life truly is beautiful. I had a moment when I was appreciating a fruit I was eating this morning. How does such a thing come to be? It's so simple yet so meaningful to ask these deep thinking questions. It's the little things.

As someone who has had a really bizarre trip with psychoactive drug experiencing space, time and reality in a completely different way, a way that is verbally indescribable. I can say that last statement makes a lot of sense to me. I felt like I was connected to a flow, something like a source of everything. I felt like I was all there is and nothing simultaneously.

Here comes my weekly subscription of existential dread 😇

This video is so to the point of explaining my own existential crisis. I need to read the books it was based on.

Love the thought provoking topics. Not something you find in everyday conversation.

This probably is the best video on this channel so far, and I'm pretty sure I've watched them all! Thank you for creating content for people to question both the world and themselves. We need such deep content to contemplate in order to evolve individually and collectively, as awoken humans reshaping our world!

that was absolutely amazing! I was cheering near the end! I've been saying this and believing this for just over a few months now and its changed my whole way of seeing the world!! thank you for this and every single other video you have made for minds like ours!

You are everything and everything is you. This is one of the teachings of Hinduism. Complete selflessness is the way to true fulfillment.

Your narration and voice is always calming and enjoyable to listen to. The community appreciates your continued work.

Don’t know if you intended this, but you really touched on some core Buddhist philosophies. It’s really amazing how buddhism and western science aligns.

I remember having these thoughts in the 3rd grade and I, like everyone else, still have no answers. I no longer spend much time wondering about this because I also realized the answers are truly unknowable. The only honest answer about god is I don’t know and neither does anyone else. I don’t play the game any longer.

7:20 Thank you for pointing that out. This is the perfect explanation. A person can realize they are dreaming and awake depending on very particular aspects. It is simple to differentiate between reality and our dreams.

Loved this video more than anything Replayed it forever. Never got tired of it.

Amazingly thought-provoking as always! thank you

Props to both the storyteller and mostly the editor!! This video is just beautiful!

Thank you for uploading 🙏🏻

So glad I found this channel... Thought provoking.

“I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up-many people feel small, because they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson

Your channel is phenomenal. Hope to see you continue making such profound videos.

This is one of my favorite videos from your channel! Exceptionally done!

I just came across your channel and am very pleased I have. Exciting content. Thank you 😊

📌 I don’t know who but someone needs to hear this,Stock is the oldest online market we have done in the past years, we employ it because of the quality of services it renders and how successful it is, today we now say crypto currency too, You’ve got to stop saving all your money. Venture into investing some, if you really want financial stability.

the man, the legend. Thank you for another amazing insight video. Keep up the great work.

And as always.. BOOM.. mind blown Thank you Persuit of Wonder

I thought it would be a positive self help video. Just crippled my anxiety even more ty.

I could swear this was written by me! There was some more food for thought, so I'll watch it again. I concur with the last idea in this video. But, these questions only prove that there is a limit to the mind, and we cannot find these answers with words and numbers invented by us. I think eastern spirituality presents another way of looking at it. The only thing I can be sure of is that I exist and I am restless. Everything I do is to find peace. And the way to find peace is look inside and see that I as an ego do not exist. That it's all a process, there is no creator, no inherent purpose. Everything just exists and is transforming non-stop. It's a play and it's good to take it seriously like a sport, but useless to think we can figure it out and win. And even though we can see that the ego is an illusion, we cannot get rid of it. That we have no free will and complete free will at the same time (refer Bhagavad Gita 4:18). This is the great paradox.

Your video shall be studied for 100 years to come and I haven't seen any content on RU-vid even close to this. Your presentation is impeccable and the animation that goes along with your smooth crisp narration is the icing on the cake. Thank you!

That video took me so deep that I am now above. Full circle, straight through. Actually, no words necessary.

Clapping on the end off video . Such a brilliant content! Bravo .

This was one of the best from your channel...good work. Animation seems to have improved too.

I love videos like this. This channel is in the group of the best on RU-vid!

I finally found it!!! this literally speaks my mind. I always think like this and never knew how to express these thoughts.

This channel has definitely resonated with, and helped me. Thank you

Keep it up, man always in for this!

You have taught me so much, brought tears to my eyes and hope to my future, genuinely thanks you

Absolutely love this channel 😊

Really wonderful one. It feels like it's arranged all the dilemmas I self talk myself and at last provided a better way to think abt it!! As I can remind a line from some book : not knowledge just knowing...

I knew i was going to question my life after clicking this, but damn... this is amazing

Much of the video’s ideas seem linked to Thomas Aquinas’s first three arguments, but the fourth disproves his third cosmological argument. Fascinating. Kudos to you, Pursuit of Wonder.

The best 15 minutes I have ever heard summed up perfectly covering all grounds (if viewed till the end) Amazing Job!

Fascinating video. Thanks for adding subtitles

The fourth and final unanswerable question is something that i'm thankful you brought up for reasons I do not wish to state. However, as a result of all the thinking i've done so far I am personally convinced of the non-reality that i'm existing inside of, and while I find it difficult to live with and especially live with other people such as my partner, i've also come to understand that while she might not be real, my feelings for her are most certainly, and that's good enough.

That made me want to applause, it was so well presented.

I enjoyed this video. I wish I can find more people that are open to these discussions.

Really love the ending...thank you!

Thanks for another great video - my favorite in months! One thing I’ve been pondering lately is if “good” can exist at all without free will and the power to commit evil. In other words, is a morally gray Universe a seemingly sick and twisted gift that we simply can’t wrap our minds around? Fascinating stuff.

As someone who has experienced hallucinations and delusions - no, we will never know if we know what's real but we're always going to convinced that it is. Those of us who aren't 100% convinced, find ourselves even more trapped in uncertainty that we even exist. For you, I'm not much more than pixels on a screen

Your videos are great. You have a wonderful thought provoking gift for storytelling- comment given by a fellow organism in this infinite array of complexities in the belly of an ever transforming whatever.

Absolutely love this.

This my all time favorite channel every video is amazing

I love these so much and they just seem to get better and better with time.

This was amazing. I have read and wondered about these topics a lot, and came to some conclusions. I am in awe of how you brought all the topics discussed into one whole thing and collapsed it all to show the gem underlying beneath Thanks for the vid

Magnificent! Thank you!

As a colour deficient person (I hate the term colour blind because I see colour), I know that others see colour differently to me. Over the years, I've actually abandoned using names like "green" or "red" or "blue" because they are meaningless to me. Usually, when I've used such words, they have caused confusion, not clarity. Your "green" is so limiting, but I stop myself asking "do you mean evergreen, or lawn green, or tree green? ". None of those look green to me, but I know others see green, though in a limited way. To me, they are three different colours, and two of them are what you might call red if you could look through my eyes. I only realised this because people find it endlessly fascinating to test my colour sense, and delight in telling me that I am wrong. Consequently, I've often wondered about other differences that might exist between my mind and someone else's, especially as I am also on the autistic spectrum. I remember my surprise when I discovered that people do not see numbers as I do. I love sudoku, but when I look at the numbers, I see characteristics, I do not see 5 but feel that it is lazy, whereas 7 is excitable, 1 is stubborn, and so on. Unfortunately, this also means that I have issues with numbers, for example, I struggle to tell the time. This video has got me asking more questions than it answered, a sign of a truly excellent video.

"Pursuit of Wonder" and "Einzelgänger" are the best channels for this kind of topic.👌

Great video, as usual. And great graphics too. Imagine watching your videos in a theater (3D /IMAX). Would be such a gooseflesh inducing event

This video has summarised all the conclusions that i reached from my own research and perception about everything.. 💯

1. How do we know that what we are perceiving is accurate? 2. How do we know that what we are perceiving is the same as other people? 3. How do we know that anything or anyone exists outside our mind at all? 4. Does God exist?

#2 - we perceive things differently. My red is your blue. What makes me happy, makes you sad and vise versa. So our qualia is different. But it could and probably is the same for a lot of people.

Next to the AwakenTheWorldFilm channel’s Samadhi, and Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds, this is my second favorite channel to watch. Thank you Pursuit of Wonder!

Good job. Thank you.

These are things I have often thought about through out my life. I'm not good at trying to articulate my thoughts on this. I can but I kind of too wordy. I LOVE these videos. They articulate perfectly things I wanna say. I don't understand why in this day and age with all this information at our finger and so many still ( probably though childhood indoctrination believe in a perfect all power all knowing God who is jealous angry, wrathful, I always felt that a perfect god would be above being so insecure petty and wrathful. etc I feel like in ancient times when natural disasters happened, people back than didn't know how the world worked or what caused such catastrophic events. I can see how this led to the beliefs in many gods, long before all the Abrahamic religions came along.

This video is truly amazing, the end gave me goosebumps and made me cry. I’ve felt the things that are being said in a psychedelic experience. The closest “religion” or philosophy that talks about this is Zen Buddhism. If you’re interested I recommend listening to lectures by Alan Watts on the topic. It makes sense when you listen carefully.

Another great video man. I agree with your description of reality at the end fully. There is only one thing.

Deep philosophical talk, the mind n this world r things we don't truly understand, (who knows if we ever will) but to think about it all n how they interact wit one another is fascinating, it's fun.

"There is just a single unified whole of everything ... eternally dancing the dance of everything to the tune of nothing", Pursuit of Wonder, 2022

Interesting video! I formulated my own version of this conundrum many years ago in the form of the question: 'Am I in the world (realism) or is the world in me (solisism)?' More recently I've started to think that the two possibilities may be, but are not necessarily, mutually exclusive. There may be an external world that exists outside of me of which I am a part, but nonetheless the entirety of my experience of that world is contained within my mind. Thus I cannot know with certainty whether I am or am not in an external world but it is certain that my perception of the world is within me (or perhaps 'is' me). The more interesting question to me is what is the nature of consciousness, and is it an emergent property of the brain? If we can figure that out, the knowledge might help us to solve the fiddle. Or perhaps the answer to the koan can never be understood but only experienced.

This just reactivated my constant childhood curiosity. I thought about that a lot and it just hurt my brain. How do we ever know if we what we're perceiving is the same as what others perceive 😵‍💫

I miss watching this, thank you so much for creating this.

Can I please have the number to your dealer, seriously I need it lol. I always wondered what philosophy/psychology majors do in their free time thank you so much! Good stuff. :)

There are a number of disparities, starting with the fact that in terms of color perception, people who rely on color standards regularly check their perception of color to uniform standards for calibrated color palates. Even the must subtle variations in hue are frequently tested. We know that variations in the wavelengths of light change perception of color. The only un-known about color perception is what the aberrations from standard are. For example, dogs probably do not see color as humans do. Similarly, humans may only be able to sense a fraction of the smells a dog can.

So fun to ponder - thoroughly enjoyed this 👍

This is why i love believing God gives so much peace understanding you apart of his Divine plan.

As a Portuguese (and an adventure motorcycle tour guide used to deal with tourists) i can confirm everything you said. The dog problem is something so common on the countryside and something we got so used to, it was sort of an epiphany to hear your comments on that. Good job man :)

‘No accurate or inaccurate perception, No beginning no end, No outside no inside, No separate no others, One single unified whole everything, Everything equally true, equally proportion, You are everything else, and everything else is you.’ Realised by Shakyamuni few thousand years ago.

woow this just moved me to tears🙏

Excellent presentation!

This blew my mind.

I thought about this often when I was very young, I've always wanted an answer yet I've always known there isn't one. It makes me feel powerless despite anything contradictory that I might say. I want to be able to accept things as they are and be strong and fulfilled, but there's always this existential dread hanging over me; like why are things the way they are? And why am I so powerless in so many situations? If my subconsciousness is always pushing for me to give up on what's important due to inconvenience then why does my ego try to defend me from self harm or self-worthlessness? Why is it the things that I put the most effort into always end up being for naught? Nothing is sacred but there's so much that I wish was.

Wow. I never comment on videos but this deserves an award. Finally a video that sums up what I’ve been contemplating my entire life

beautiful video, for a while these very questions lead me into deep depression I just couldn’t accept that I didn’t know so I would constantly try to prove different things like how people would react/act, think strange things and see if it affects reality, feeling as if I was god or everyone who isn’t me was god; could really go on forever about these thoughts… recently found peace with it all and accepted that I will never know but was nice knowing someone else had thought similarly..

This, in my opinion, might be your best video yet . So profound, understanding while covering most angles of opinions. It also discussed a thought I was wrestling with for a while now. 8:51 I'm partially religious and my main question was, if God is truly real as we know, how did he come to be and so forth. Because in our current timeline there always is,was and has been a cause and effect......

Mind blowing and thought provoking. This is why "art" is so problematic for artists.

Everything else is you...Applause. Such good work on this. I have chills from the Stone Paradox.

Love this channel

You just broke the whole Matrix…

Hands down the best channel out there, thanks for the quality content!

This gave me more peace than anything I've ever listened too.

I came here with only 2 brain cells yet i leave with many many more as each new cell becomes 2 cells while watching your channel and that is why the future looks promising once again brimming with hope and ambition for success through continous learning while using imaginantion and thining in ways that are new and fresh , thank you so much

This is how my understanding of the world has always been but its hard to explain to others

As an adept of what I call "magical solipsism", I love this.

Knowledge, thinking, and wisdom are tools for making our way through the world and are inadequate for revealing the complete nature of everything.