210922 What I learned in my studies this morning
Playful ideas tease
Flying 'round my mind, whirling
Flying 'round my mind, whirling
Dancing, paying heed.
Daily Stoic:
How routinely am I challenged by circumstances and I take it personally? Rather than rationally accepting reality as it is or looking for an opportunity in difficulty or telling myself ". . . so what?" and moving on, how often do I grow resentful and petulant and delay getting on with life so I can uselessly pout and let the whole world know that it hurt my feelings?
Today's Poem:
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Harlot's House in The Dramatic Review, April 11, 1885 (vol. 1, no. 11, p. 167)
Daily Shakespeare:
Daily Stoic:
How routinely am I challenged by circumstances and I take it personally? Rather than rationally accepting reality as it is or looking for an opportunity in difficulty or telling myself ". . . so what?" and moving on, how often do I grow resentful and petulant and delay getting on with life so I can uselessly pout and let the whole world know that it hurt my feelings?
Too damned often.
It's one of those things I need to work on: eliminating (or at least minimizing) the time between when I become aware of a problem and when I let the immediate emotions pass through me so I can do the next right thing.
Today's Meditation:
Today's Meditation II:
Today's Meditation:
"The unexamined life worth living."
A phrase I learned so, so long ago and am only now realizing its depth.
Today's Poem:
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Harlot's House in The Dramatic Review, April 11, 1885 (vol. 1, no. 11, p. 167)
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Please note that I am not saying I agree or disagree with what is posted above. It is merely a recording of what I read this morning.