🖌️ What is Happiness?, Ignorance, Questions, and Plato's Cave
Monday Muse (September 25th, 2023)
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 Aristotle.
📌 Perennial Reminder(s)
To return to C. S. Lewis, ‘Perhaps every new learning makes room for itself by creating a new ignorance.’ We should always think twice before describing any individual, culture or period as ignorant, since there is simply too much to know – an old complaint but one that has become more and more justified in our time. To return to Mark Twain, ‘We are all ignorant, just about different things.’ […]
Source: Ignorance: A Global History by Peter Burke (Learn more).
💡 Perennial Question(s)
Each of the givens or conditions of existence evokes a question about our destiny. Are we here to get our way or to dance with the flow of life? Are we here to make sure everything goes according to our plans or to trust the surprises and synchronicities that lead us to new vistas? Are we here to make sure we get a fair deal or are we here to be upright and loving? Are we here to avoid pain or to deal with it, grow from it, and learn to be compassionate through it? […]
Source: The Five Things We Cannot Change by David Richo (Listen to the conversation).
🔥 Recommendation(s)
This week's recommendation is a YouTube video from the team at After Skool, specifically, a new video on Plato’s allegory of the cave:
🎧 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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