“No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free.” Buddha
Category Archives: Current Events
Return to Tradition: The Broken Promises of Modernity
In a modern world of lies, one will cling to the traditions of old to find their answers.
At Year’s End: Three Quotes to Help Accept the End
“You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.”
John Irving
The Will To Overcome: 3 Philosophical Quotes of Hope in Hard Times
“A flower blooming in the desert proves to the world that adversity, no matter how great, can be overcome.”
Matshona Dhliwayo
Virtue vs. Vice: Then and Now
“Freedom is the name of virtue: Slavery, of vice…. None is a slave whose acts are free.”
-Epictetus
Kindness Despite Disagreement
“Begin the morning by saying to yourself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil. … I can neither be injured by any of them, for no one can fix on me what is ugly, nor can I be angry with my kinsman, nor hate him.” -Marcus Aurelius
Respect vs Censorship
When morals no longer exist, people cling to government and censorship for solutions.
Simplicity: Then and Now
“Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity.
Put others first.
Desire little.”
-Lao Tzu
“This Too Shall Pass!” Living With Impermanence Through Hard Times.
“Thus strong wind does not last all morning.
Sudden rain does not last all day.
Even Heaven and Earth cannot make it last” -Tao Te Ching Chapter 23
Actions, Habits, and Character Today
In today’s world, actions, not beliefs are what moves people forward.
