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Everyone is a mirror (DON MIGUEL RUIZ)

Three thousand years ago, there was a human just like you and me who lived near a city surrounded by mountains. The human was studying...

20 September, 2021

Dareios (C. P. CAVAFY)

Phernazis the poet is at work on the crucial part of his epic: how Dareios, son of Hystaspis, took over the Persian kingdom. (It’s from him, Dareios,...

19 September, 2021

Master and Man (LEO TOLSTOY) | Part B’

From the time he had covered himself with the sackcloth and seated himself behind the sledge, Nikita had not stirred. Like all those who live...

18 September, 2021

Master and Man (LEO TOLSTOY) | Part A’

And having taken these things from under Vasili Andreevich, Nikita went behind the sledge, dug out a hole for himself in the snow, put straw...

17 September, 2021

Which is idiotic: you can get away from it anytime you like (MARCUS AURELIUS)

People try to get away from it all—to the country, to the beach, to the mountains. You always wish that you could too....

16 September, 2021

What factors are at play when people of high IQ flounder and those of modest IQ do surprisingly well? (DANIEL GOLEMAN)

What factors are at play when people of high IQ flounder and those of modest IQ do surprisingly well? I would argue that the difference...

15 September, 2021

To learn how to live (SENECA)

There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn. Of the other...

14 September, 2021

If you were suffering and someone offered you a free trip anywhere in the world, or the galaxy for that matter, would you take it?… (LOU MARINOFF)

DEALING WITH SUFFERING There are several ways to deal with suffering: keep it to yourself, escape from it, pass it on to someone else, end...

13 September, 2021

Find on your own your Shoulds, Musts and Oughts | Part C’

A Look at the Common Payoffs of Musterbation   Some of the reasons you have for hanging onto your shoulds are detailed below. These payoffs,...

12 September, 2021

Find on your own your Shoulds, Musts and Oughts | Part B’

Resisting Enculturation and Traditions When They Affect You Negatively Progress, yours personally and the world’s, depends on unreasonable men, rather than people who adapt...

11 September, 2021