Moral Letters
046 - On Your New Blog - Moral Letters for Modern Times
Acquire new knowledge while thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
Moral Letters
This is a modern take on Seneca's Moral Letters to Lucilius. I use them as tools in the ongoing search for what it means to live a good life. Although Seneca's words have been mined for centuries, each generation keeps turning up gemstones. I seek to polish old stones to show them in a new light.
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045 - On Words And Meaning - Moral Letters for Modern Times
A gifted thinker turns words into more than words by adding meaning. This particular alchemy comes about when we go beyond the surface and address what is of lasting value.
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044 - On Class And Philosophy - Moral Letters for Modern Times
Philosophy holds out to us the exact same opportunity, regardless of birth, gender, class, or wealth. Truly the way is open to all.
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043 - On Rumor And Fact - Moral Letters for Modern Times
When we look at others, our views of reality are shaded by the tint of our own minds: our prejudices, our fears, and our faults.
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042 - On The Meaning Of Life - Moral Letters for Modern Times
How do we find meaning? By learning to identify all those things that are meaningless, and serve only to weigh us down: public opinion and trends; fashion, fame, and fortune; anger, envy, and longing.
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041 - On Looking Within - Moral Letters for Modern Times
For us to know the true worth of something, we must look beyond the packaging. And this takes time.
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040 - On Composure - Moral Letters for Modern Times
Just as the glib speaker fools the lazy listener, so we mistake fervor in argument for conviction, and conviction for correctness.
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039 - On Drinking Deeply - Moral Letters for Modern Times
Think of a summary as but a sip, nourishing if it comes after a full meal, but leaving you empty if you have consumed nothing before it.
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038 - On A Good Talk - Moral Letters for Modern Times
Give me persons of any age who have made their own choice to learn, not because anyone compels them to, but because they believe it will bring them something of value.
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037 - On Keeping Your Promise - Moral Letters for Modern Times
It should give you pause to consider that the great many who think themselves in possession of their faculties are in fact being mindlessly swept along.
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036 - On Defining Your Own Success - Moral Letters for Modern Times
To follow your own mind, especially when it directs a course that goes against all others, is the greatest achievement.
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035 - On Like Minds - Moral Letters for Modern Times
The coward looks on and says all is good; it is the hero who says your ship is veering off course. Watch carefully your instinct to reward the first one and punish the second.