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The road to deep freedom in retirement is found not in self-actualization, but in self-surrender.
Jeff Haanen • An Uncommon Guide to Retirement: Finding God's Purpose for the Next Season of Life
St. Augustine (AD 354–430) in affirming every human being as a trinity of existence (being), intellect, and will.
Vishal Mangalwadi • The Book that Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization
If this life not be a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatrics from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight—as if there were something really wild in the universe which we . . . are needed to redeem. —WILLIAM JAMES
Steven Kotler • The Art of Impossible
Perception, Action, Will. Those are the three overlapping but critical disciplines of Stoicism
Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
Do We Have Free Will? | Robert Sapolsky & Andrew Huberman
youtube.comlēthē is also at the root of a Greek word for “truth,” alethia—literally, un-forgetting (or un-concealing, the sense of which Heidegger made much). The truth of things lies in our not-forgetting or our remembering.
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our English word remember comes to us from Latin via Old French. The roots being re- (again) and memorari (to be mindful), thus “to be
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We’re talking about what psychologists today would describe as the “adaptive unconscious.” Timothy Wilson, a psychologist at the University of Virginia, has described this in his important book Strangers to Ourselves (a very Augustinian title!). Over the past twenty years psychology has come to appreciate the overwhelming influence of
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