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Enjoy this week’s philosophical and practical ideas…
#1 There is no Light Without Darkness
Most of us live in a world of light.
We have warm beds for the night, a roof over our head, enough food for days and entertainment at the click of a button.
Many people live in a world of Darkness.
Not only do they lack the comforts most of us enjoy, but are also exposed to evil and suffering.
They don’t have warm beds, a roof over their heads, food or water. Sometimes, they do not even have freedom.
Developing perspective for the darkness leads to more appreciation of the light.
#2 On Purpose
“If life has a purpose, it involves suffering and problem-solving.”
Source: Twitter by Joshua Fields Millburn
#3 John Adams on Elevating the Mind of Children
“Human nature with all its infirmities and depravation is still capable of great things. It is capable of attaining to degrees of wisdom and of goodness, which, we have reason to believe, appear respectable in the estimation of superior intelligences. … The virtues and powers to which men may be trained, by early education and constant discipline, are truly sublime and astonishing. …
It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to a excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives. But their bodies must be hardened, as well as their souls exalted. Without strength and activity and vigor of body, the brightest mental excellencies will be eclipsed and obscured.”
Source: Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 October 1775
#4 Sadhguru on Unhappiness
"The only reason you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy."
Source: Twitter by Sadhguru
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Waldi
Post Scriptum this week:
The Meaning Formula, Black Friday, The Stop-Start-Method, New Year in December, How to Deal with Setbacks, Why Less can be More, Modern Bread and Games, Why Knowledge Must Lead to Action, Lyrics - The Pursuit of Knowledge.
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