260515 What I learned in my studies this morning 6
Today's Meditation(s): Meditations, 9.6 (Hicks and Hicks) Doing these things will be enough to lead to the tranquility I am searching for. Do them.
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260514 What I learned in my studies this morning 6*
Today's Meditation(s): Meditations, 9.4 (Hicks and Hicks) No one does evil willingly and knowingly. They are vicious because they misunderstand what virtue is and why it's important. If they knew they'd choose good.
260513 What I learned in my studies this morning 6**
Today's Meditation(s): Those years feel exhausting when you’re in them. Loud. Sticky. Chaotic. You count down the minutes to bedtime. You look forward to it being quiet. You tell yourself that, one day, things will calm down. And then one day, they do. The house gets quiet. Those little stools disappear. The chaos organizes itself into independence. Now, you miss what you just rushed through. 260514 Daily Dad The days of tiny stools are behind me now. Now, instead, I young adults for whom I do my best to exemplify virtue and teach them thereof. It's so different, but so rewarding to see it take hold. My kids are good people and I'm proud of them.
260512 What I learned in my studies this morning 6***
Today's Meditation(s): It must be bewildering to be a kid. The world is a confusing and illogical place…and so little of it is explained to them at first. And their brains are still developing, to boot. Imagine what things would feel like if you didn’t have object permanence (and kids don’t until they’re around a year old)! Imagine falling asleep in the car or in the stroller and waking up hours later, alone in a pitch-black room. Imagine you’ve never been in a classroom and sat at something called a “desk” for the entire day…and then suddenly this is your life. Imagine learning that, in English, there are three words that sound the same but mean totally different things (“Mary,” “merry,” and “marry”—although this may depend on your accent) and that this is not at all uncommon. Imagine you spent most of your existence in the safe bubble of your parents’ care and then suddenly you’re a teenager and there are real—even life-or-death—consequences to so much of what you want to do. The...
260511 What I learned in my studies this morning 6
Today's Meditation(s): Meditations , 8.59 (Hicks and Hicks) Fix it or hush. No complaining about something I can fix but haven't, through inability or laziness.
260510 What I learned in my studies this morning 6*
Today's Meditation(s): Meditations , 8.56 (Hicks and Hicks) What a positive way to view it.
260509 What I learned in my studies this morning 6
Today's Meditation(s): Meditations , 8.55 (Hicks and Hicks) One of those passages that would drive nonStoics nuts. It's easy to see how someone would interpret this as ignoring the 'harm' caused to third-parties by one's wickedness. All based on a misunderstanding of harm, on thinking harm is anything other than giving up my virtue.