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Finished Reading “Heretics”

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  "G. K. Chesterton, the "Prince of Paradox," is at his witty best in this collection of twenty essays and articles from the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on  "heretics" - those who pride themselves on their superiority to Christian views - Chesterton appraises prominent figures who fall into that category from the literary and art worlds... those who hold incomplete and inadequate views about "life, the universe, and everything." He is, in short, criticizing all that host of non-Christian views of reality, as he demonstrated in his follow-up book Orthodoxy. The book is both an easy read and a difficult read. But he manages to demonstrate, among other things, that our new 21st century heresies are really not new because he himself deals with most of them." (Goodreads)

T’was A Dark and Froggy Night

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Tranquil and Active

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The Love Of Wisdom

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  (Seneca, Moral Letters, 16.3)  

Practice What You Preach

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  (Seneca, Moral Letters, 108.38)

Resist!

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(Epictetus, The Art of Living. Photo by Wendy Wei)  

Perfection is the enemy of action

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Just The Facts, Ma’am

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  “Don’t tell yourself anything more than what the initial impressions report. It’s been reported to you that someone is speaking badly about you. This is the report—the report wasn’t that you’ve been harmed. . .   . . .  So always stay within your first impressions, and don’t add to them in your head—this way nothing can happen to you.” (Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 8.49)

Start Where You Are

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  Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 9.29

Currently Reading

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It Happened Before, It Can Happen Again

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 Fell off the fitness wagon 3 years ago. Time to start over.

Nip It!

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  "The more you say," Robert Greene has written, "the more likely you are to say something foolish." 

A Made Up Mind

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“You must completely control your desire and shift your avoidance to what lies within your reasoned choice.” (Epictetus, Discourses, 3.22)

The Good Life Is Anywhere, Everywhere

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 (Seneca, Moral Letters, 28.5)

Nothing Can Prevent Learning

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(Musonius Rufus, Lectures, 9.37.30–31, 9.39.1)

Dwell Not On The Negative

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 Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.50