210114 What I learned in my studies this morning

Today's Tao:

Therefore when Tao is lost, there is goodness. 

When goodness is lost, there is kindness. 

When kindness is lost, there is justice. 

When justice is lost, there is ritual.

From The Daily Stoic: 

 

Apps are trying to get me addicted. News is trying to outrage me. Ads are trying to change my possible desires into needs. 

All these forces are distracting from my true purpose: living a life of virtue. 

“Man is pushed by drives but pulled by values.” ~ Viktor Frankl, The Will to Meaning

From Eric Hoffer, Part III, Unifying Agents:

Hatred 

A sublime religion inevitably generates a strong feeling of guilt. There is an unavoidable contrast between loftiness of profession and imperfection of practice. And, as one would expect, the feeling of guilt promotes hate and brazenness. Thus it seems that the more sublime the faith the more virulent the hatred it breeds.

(The True Believer, XIV-72)