🖌️ Monday Muse
The Monday Muse is a weekly collection of reminders, insights, and maxims on the art of living. The term “muse” has two meanings: (1) a state of deep thought; and (2) a source of inspiration. May the following (in a small way) be a source of contemplation, insight, and wisdom to live your highest good.
📌 Perennial Reminder(s)
The philosopher and professor Alva Noë on art and philosophy:
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. …
We are questions, not answers, and in this we are like artworks. We are aesthetic phenomena. To understand and know ourselves, we need to undertake an aesthetic investigation of that work-in-progress that is the self we are. …
Art and philosophy require of us that we work ourselves over and make ourselves anew, individually and ensemble. …
Source: The Entanglement (via In Search of Wisdom)
📜 Perennial Maxim(s)
The philosopher Michel de Montaigne (1533—1592) on learning from others:
What is your favorite quote? Do you have a maxim you try to embody in daily life? In Montaigne’s Essays you’ll find the words of Socrates, Plutarch, Seneca, and many other great thinkers.
💡 Perennial Insight(s)
The psychiatrist and author Dilip Jeste, M.D. on becoming wiser:
No single component of wisdom or becoming wise is more essential than prosocial behavior, doing things that benefit others or the society as a whole. These are driven by traits like empathy, compassion, and altruism. … Humans are social animals. By and large, we do not fare well alone—at least not for any significant length of time. We need the presence of people, a fact we ignore at our own peril…. We need one another for support, guidance, advice, and wisdom. […]
Source: Wiser (via In Search of Wisdom)
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Thank you for reading; I hope you found something useful.
Until next time, be wise and be well,
J.W. Bertolotti
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