🖌️ Getting Over Yourself, Friendship, Discovering Ourselves, and Being Human
Monday Muse (Vol. 32)
Greetings Readers!
Here is the latest Monday Muse with a morning meditation, perennial reminder, question, and recommendation(s) to consider.
Be wise and be well this week!
📿 Morning Meditation
This week’s morning meditation is courtesy of The Wisdom School podcast (Apple or Spotify). Today’s meditation is a short reflection (delivered in a Lectio Divina style) titled Getting Over Yourself.
📌 Perennial Reminder(s)
For Epicurus, all humans have needs—the frailty is the point. Mutual protection and shared values allow friends to acquire both security and joy on equal terms. Paying attention to the essential features of Epicurean friendship can help us identify good friends and be better friends. Using Epicurean standards, we might locate beneficial friendships and weed out harmful relationships […]
Source: Living for Pleasure by Emily Austin (Listen to the conversation).
💡 Perennial Question(s)
C.S. Lewis closes his first lecture with a verbal sketch of the human person in three parts: head, belly, and chest. In “the head” we have thoughts and in “the belly” we have sensations, but only when we learn to integrate the rational and the sensual in stable sentiments, located in “the chest,” do we really discover ourselves as human beings. […]
Source: After Humanity by Michael Ward (Listen to the conversation).
🔥 Recommendation(s)
This week's recommendation is an episode of the How to Be Sad podcast with Helen Russell (an upcoming podcast guest). The specific episode I’m recommending is with Kate Bowler. Kate is a history professor, host of the podcast Everything Happens, and NYT bestselling author of No Cure for Being Human.
🎧 Recent Podcast(s)
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Thank you for reading/listening; I hope you found something useful.
Until next time, be wise and be well,
J.W.
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