Tag: progress
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On Exercising Contentment
Show me then your progress in this point. As if I should say to a wrestler, Show me your muscle; and he should answer me, “See my dumb-bells.” Your...
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The Gateway to Clarity
The best posture of mind is that which seeks first, not orthodoxy, but clearness. Of course, truth is immeasurably the highest object of...
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It's Good to Be Picky
As one of the poets says: "From the good shalt thou learn good things; but if thou minglest with the bad thou shalt lose even what thou hast of...
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Soulcraft Rhythms
…just as poetry is forgotten unless it is often repeated, so instruction, when no longer heeded, fades from the mind. To forget good counsel is to...
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Training the Soul
I notice that as those who do not train the body cannot perform the functions proper to the body, so those who do not train the soul cannot perform...
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Polishing the Mind
His thinking…is often exclusive and angular, in consequence of its not being rubbed and polished and adjusted by being placed alongside of the...
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The Middle Way of Pietas
What then is to be done? To make the best of what is in our power, and take the rest as it occurs. And how does it occur? As it pleases God… -...
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