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Words, not volume
“Raise you words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” – Rumi Everyday we are likely to meet with the temptation to raise our voice. Anger, frustration, pain, envy, confusion, hatred….a number of feelings can spark the fire or wrath unleashed in the form of loud speech.…
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Confucius Series: Humaneness
The Master said: ‘Riches and honors — these are what men desire, but if this is not achieved in accordance with the appropriate principles, one does not cling to them. Poverty and obscurity–these are what men hate, but if they are not achieved in accordance with the appropriate principles, one…
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Empathy Math
Consider your own suffering. In your life, daily encounters, dreams. Hold it in your hand – all the difficulty, pain, struggle, and suffering you have. Now times that by several billion. That is the world’s suffering. Knowing each person we meet is suffering the same as us increases empathy and…
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Time Well Spent
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. – Bertrand Russel Leisure time…..after we’ve worked hard, how do we spend our time? After we’ve earned money, how do we spend it? After we’ve done what…
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Death Acceptance
“Death is not an evil. What is it then? The one law mankind has that is free of all discrimination.” – Marcus Aurelius We will all die and it is fair. In life, many things are not fair and I do not need to list them out. But death will…
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The Life of the Spirit
For a long time the spirit, and the sufferings of the spirit, were positive values and the things more worth striving for in our peculiar Christian culture. Only in the course of the nineteenth century, when spirit began to degenerate into intellect, did a reaction set in against the unbearable…
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Pride and Memory
‘I have done that,’ says my memory. ‘I cannot have done that’ – says my pride, and remains adamant. At last – memory yields. – Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil – Part Four Maxims and Interludes 68 When we make mistakes in life, this occurs. Our memory rises and…
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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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Machine
What do military bodies, fortune 500 companies, crime organizations, or any other large entities have in common? They value order, routine, discipline, and overall aim to run like clockwork in a Swiss watch – each little cog doing its part to help the organization achieve its purpose. These entities want…
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Return to the Wise Road
“Be not unhappy, or discouraged, or dissatisfied, if you do not succeed in acting always by the right principles; but when you have failed, try again, and be content if most of your acts are consistent with man’s nature. Love that to which you return; do not return to philosophy…
KEEP THE OLD WARM 