053 - On Knowing Your Limits - Moral Letters for Modern Times
Awkwardness, thy name is Smalltalk! And to know that I will inflict myself on an unwitting dinner table with my unwitty remarks makes me wish most fervently to return to my hermit’s cave.
052 - On Role Models - Moral Letters for Modern Times
Those who see much while believing they know little are much rarer and more valuable than those who believe they know much and consequently see little.
051 - On Seven Popular Places - Moral Letters for Modern Times
For those who are training their minds, solitude may be the best way to avoid early unwelcome tests. If you do not wish to be tempted, do not wander blithely through the bazaar of modern desires.
With Experience Comes ... Patience (Newsletter 025)
Is there any way to become mindful without age and experience? I believe philosophy holds a potential key, and Stoicism in particular. It is mindfulness itself that grants us agency over our thoughts. We can think ourselves unwell, or well.
050 - On Those Who Will Not See - Moral Letters for Modern Times
Many people are the architects of their own misery, never realizing that with similar effort and much less worry they could just as easily be about the building of a personal paradise.
049 - On How All Things End - Moral Letters for Modern Times
Now I am aged myself, though I did not note time’s magic as it worked upon me. I woke up one day to see some potion had taken its effect, and wizened my face before I’ve managed to bring wisdom to my eyes.
048 - On Word Games And Worthy Matters - Moral Letters for Modern Times
People spend their time in want and worry, and their earnest efforts are destined to futility because they are working towards ends that can never make them happy. They want possessions, promotions, and power, and worry that what they have obtained will be taken from them.
047 - On Bosses And Underlings - Moral Letters for Modern Times
It betrays real cruelty to knowingly treat another as beneath you simply because they serve you. But to do so out of ignorance of their inherent worth is an even worse offense to your own worth.
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.
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.
