Dear Fellow Traveler,
There’s an old saying, “Tell what you love, and I’ll tell you who you are.” What do you love? Is friendship on the list of things you love? If not, maybe it should be.
There were 147 ancient sayings inscribed upon a stone monument at Delphi. These maxims included sayings like Certainty Brings Ruins, Think Like a Mortal, and Love Friendship.
How might the maxim “Love Friendship” help guide your life?
Interestingly, the value of friendship is universal wisdom. If I were to ask, “What do Epicurus, Aristotle, Seneca, and the Buddha have in common?” You would be correct to assume that they all stressed the wisdom (and practice) of friendship.
In one of his letters to Lucilius, Seneca wrote,
Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must keep the knowledge of it to myself. . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess without friends to share it.
Friendship involves a specific concern for another, a situation that might reasonably be understood as a kind of love.
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