Category: Action
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The Subtle Enemy
“The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures.” – Democritus Let us focus on pleasure as a quick and easy escape from pain, a temptation that encourages excuses. We all want to achieve our highest goals and aspirations, find love, achieve purpose, etc. Standing…
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Choose Difficulty
“It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.” – Confucius To achieve the best in life, prepare to work hard, struggle, and be…
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Confucius Series: Ripple Effects of the Heart
“To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.” – Confucius…
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We get what we deserve
“Attend to the matter which is before you, whether it is an opinion or an act or a word. You get what you deserve: for you choose rather to become good tomorrow than to be good today.” – Marcus Aurelius Meditations VIII: 22 Most of us aspire to be better…
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Takes Two To Tango
You, and I. Their team, our team. Their party, our party. Their country, their country. It takes two to make something positive, or negative. If we say something terrible with the intent to harm the other person, they can either choose to be hurt and retaliate, or they can walk…
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Our Day and Age
There is an old Chinese curse that goes something like “May you be born in an interesting time.” The least we can say about our world in 2024 is that it is…..interesting. We live in an age of planes, electric cars, spaceships, artificial intelligence, microchips, robots, smart phones, mass communication,…
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Rectify the names
Zilu said: ‘If the Lord of Wei were waiting for you to run the government, what would you give priority to?’ The Master said: “What is necessary is to rectify names, is it not?’ Zilu said: ‘If this were to take place, it would surely be an aberration of yours.…
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Money is not time
Time is money. We can always devote time to making money. However, all value in the world, all money combined, cannot buy back a trillionth of a second of time. It is said many wealthy individuals who are in the twilight of their lives say that if they could trade…
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Image-model
“With this image as a model, the sage learns how best to develop himself so that his influence may endure. He must make himself strong in every way, by consciously casting out all that is inferior and degrading. Thus he attains that tirelessness which depends upon consciously limiting the fields…
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Rooted Change
“When we hit our lowest point we are open to the greatest change.” – Avatar Aang In The Legend of Korra, Avatar Aang’s spirit tells this to the new Avatar that proceeds him, Avatar Korra, after she experiences terrible personal tragedy. When we go so low, in whatever way, and…
KEEP THE OLD WARM 