Category: Teacher Series
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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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Paradox Freedom
Book Inspiration: The Stoic Virtues Series: Dicipline is Destiny: The power of Self Control – Ryan Holiday – A teacher and keeper of The Old Unbounded freedom — enslavement, destruction. Bounded freedom — freedom, growth. If we give our bodies, cravings, appetites, desires, and addictions the gift of freedom, we…
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Old Saints and Young Warriors
Obviously it is in the youthful period of life that we have most to gain from a thorough recognition of the instinctual side. A timely recognition of sexuality, for instance, can prevent that neurotic suppression of it which keeps a man unduly withdrawn from life, or else forces him into…
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Teacher Series: Ryan Holiday
I once had the pleasure of seeing Ryan Holiday speak. He is a generational author and teacher of wisdom and still only 36 years old. His mentor Robert Greene was ill, so Ryan spoke with a mediator. I had the privilege of asking him a question after his talk that…
KEEP THE OLD WARM 