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“Excellence is a habit”
Widely misattributed to Aristotle, the following quotation was, in fact, part of…
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Serenity Prayer
You can read more about the history and context of the Serenity…
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“What I cannot create, I do not understand”
Nobel-Prizewinning physicist Richard Feynman was a master teacher as well as brilliant…
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Meditation as practice for everyday thinking
“Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived…
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“Pain is inevitable”
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think,…
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“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”
“If you’re having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn’t you. The…
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“Happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.”
But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man…
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“The unexamined life is not worth living”
According to Plato, said by Socrates in response to the guilty verdict…
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