Dear Readers,
Here is the latest Monday Muse with a meditation from our Dying Every Day series, a perennial reminder, and a perennial insight to consider.
Be wise and be well this week!
💀 Dying Every Day
The Dying Every Day series is now part of the Monday Muse! This series focuses on delivering Stoic meditations on the art of living. Each meditation provides a quote, a selected passage (from an original Stoic text), and a daily exercise.
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📌 Perennial Reminder(s)
To say that life and art are entangled is to propose not only that we make art out of life—that life, so to speak, supplies art’s raw materials—but further that art then works those materials over and changes them. Art makes life new. We become something different in an art world. And crucially, our world has always been an art world. … To understand and know ourselves, we need to undertake an aesthetic investigation of that work-in-progress that is the self we are. […]
Source: The Entanglement by Alva Noë (Listen to my conversation on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.)
💡 Perennial Insight(s)
For Goethe, this was precisely the characteristic of ancient life and art: to know how to live in the present, to know what he called, as we shall see, ‘the health of the moment.’ … One could summarize everything we have just said by these verses from Horace: ‘Let the soul find its pleasure in the present and come to hate worries about what is beyond.’ A happy mind does not look toward the future. We can be happy right now, if we limit our desires reasonably. […]
Source: Don’t Forget to Live by Pierre Hadot
🎧 Recent Podcast(s)
***Listen to In Search of Wisdom on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Until next time, be wise and be well,
J.W.
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