260801 What I learned in my studies this morning 6

Today's Last Night's Meditation:

My journey last night involved a lot of realizations. 

• I can be truly happy even when I don't indulge my vices.
• People of all abilities strain against their limitations and it's wonderful and worthy.
• Look for expression and talent and art everywhere.
• I can appreciate things better when I actively try, when I deliberately put my expectations, assumptions, and biases aside.
• I need to be better about what I eat. And it's possible without deprivation.
• I need to exercise more.
• My wife deserves better from me: better attention, better care, more respect.
• I have friends I need to reconnect with.
• I need to stop intoxicating myself so much. The occasional beer or bowl is one thing. Daily, and in quantity, is too much.
• I need to examine my assumptions about people more often and more seriously.
• Seeing others as fully human is important. Sonder is something to understand better.
• People are more capable of amazing things than I give them credit for.
• I need to be more accepting.
• Philosophy really is a life changing practice.

Siddhartha said: “I have had thoughts, yes, and insights, now and then. Sometimes, for an hour or for a day, I have felt knowledge in me the way we feel life in our hearts. There were a number of thoughts, but it would be hard for me to communicate them to you. Listen, my Govinda, this is one of my thoughts that I have found: Wisdom cannot be communicated. Wisdom that a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.”