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 selected reading (delivered in a Lectio Divina style) inspired by the writings of Arthur Schopenhauer.
📌 Perennial Reminder(s)
In spite of all the enforced physical and mental primitiveness of the life in a concentration camp, it was possible for spiritual life to deepen. Sensitive people who were used to a rich intellectual life may have suffered much pain (they were often of a delicate constitution), but the damage to their inner selves was less. They were able to retreat from their terrible surroundings to a life of inner riches and spiritual freedom. Only in this way can one explain the apparent paradox that some prisoners of a less hardy make-up often seemed to survive camp life better than did those of a robust nature. […]
Source: Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl (via Reading & the Good Life).
💡 Perennial Question(s)
Put as abstract questions about independent self-essence or existence, these philosophical questions can seem impersonal and academic. They certainly can be, but one way to see their importance beyond philosophical theory is to remember that these issues also apply to you. You, the person currently reading this sentence. In the same way that there isn’t really a pile, there isn’t really a you. If all things are essentially relational, one of those things is you. These aren’t merely questions about how the world out there works, they’re also about you and what kind of thing you are. […]
Source: Seeing Clearly by Nic Bommarito (Listen to the conversation).
🔥 Recommendation(s)
This week's recommendation is an invitation to our upcoming (Saturday, 14 Oct at Noon EST) end-of-course meetup for Happiness & the Meaning of Life (Register here). Even if you did not participate in the course, I think you’ll find it a fruitful discussion on the art of living well. I hope to see you there!
🎧 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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