TAKE A WALK
“We should take wandering outdoor walks, so that the mind might be nourished and refreshed bythe open air and deep breathing.”
—SENECA, ON TRANQUILITY OF MIND, 17.8

In a notoriously loud city like Rome, it was nearly impossible to find peace and quiet.

The noises of wagons, the shouting of vendors, the hammering of a blacksmith—all filled the streets with piercing violence (to say nothing of the putrid smells of a city with poor sewage and sanitation). So philosophers went on many walks—to get where they needed to go, to clear their minds, to get fresh air. Throughout the ages, philosophers, writers, poets, and thinkers have found that walking offers an additional benefit—time and space for better work. As Nietzsche would later say: “It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth.”Today, make sure you take a walk. And in the future, when you get stressed or overwhelmed, take a walk. When you have a tough problem to solve or a decision to make, take a walk. When you want to be creative, take a walk. When you need to get some air, take a walk. When you have a phone call to make, take a walk. When you need some exercise, take a long walk. When you have a meeting or a friend over, take a walk together.

Nourish yourself and your mind and solve your problems along the way.

Jesus, not Virgin Mary, saved the world, Vatican says

Jesus alone saved the world, said the new instruction, settling an internal debate that had befuddled senior Church figures for decades, and even sparked rare open disagreement among recent popes.

The late Pope Francis fiercely opposed granting Mary the noscript of "co-redeemer", at one point calling the idea "foolishness".
"She never wanted to take anything for herself from her son," Francis, who died in April, said in 2019.

Reuter's

https://www.reuters.com/world/jesus-not-virgin-mary-saved-world-vatican-says-2025-11-04/#:~:text=VATICAN%20CITY%2C%20Nov%204%20(Reuters,the%20Vatican%20said%20on%20Tuesday.

Ig that's what Protestants have been saying

“Thank you to those so often forgotten by the politics of our city … I speak of Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuelas. Senegalese taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses. Trinidadian line cooks and Ethiopian aunties, yes aunties.”
Zohran Mamdani,

New Newyok Meyer called our country y'all

Ig we forgot how much war is destructive.

THE DEFINITION OFINSANITY

“If you are defeated once and tell yourself you will overcome, but carry on as before, know in theend you’ll be so ill and weakened that eventually you won’t even notice your mistake and willbegin to rationalize your behavior.”
—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.18.31

It's been said that the definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over again but expecting adiferent result. Yet that’s exactly what most people do. They tell themselves: Today, I won’t get angry.Today, I won’t gorge myself. But they don’t actually do anything diferently. They try the same routine andhope it will work this time. Hope is not a strategy!Failure is a part of life we have litle choice over.

Learning from failure, on the other hand, isoptional. We have to choose to learn. We must consciously opt to do things diferently—to tweak andchange until we actually get the result we’re after. But that’s hard.

Sticking with the same unsuccessful patern is easy. It doesn’t take any thought or any additional efort,which is probably why most people do it.

Ig we didn't prayed hard. Let's pray harder before it escalate more.

This speech by Steve Jobs always echoes in my mind. I’ve probably posted it here a lot of times too.

@selfmadecoder

What is off abt this man is that he is radical Muslim who support LGBTQ+

WHAT?🤔🤔🤔🤔

THE LONG WAY AROUND

“You could enjoy this very moment all the things you are praying to reach by taking the long wayaround—if you’d stop depriving yourself of them.”
—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 12.1

Ask most people what they’re working toward and you’ll get an answer like: “I’m trying to become a[insert profession].” Or they’ll tell you they’re trying to get appointed to some impressive comiteeor position, become a millionaire, get discovered, become famous, whatever.

Now you ask a couple morequestions, such as “Why are you doing that?” or “What are you hoping it will be like when you get it?”and you find at the very core of it, people want freedom, they want happiness, and they want the respect of their peers.A Stoic looks at all this and shakes his head at the imense efort and expense we put into chasingthings that are simple and straightforward to acquire.
It’s as if we prefer to spend years building acomplicated Rube Goldberg machine instead of just reaching out and picking up what we want. It’s like looking all over for your sunglasses and then realizing they were on your head the whole time.

Freedom?
That’s easy. It’s in your choices.

Happiness?
That’s easy. It’s in your choices.

Respect of your peers?
That too is in the choices you make.And all of that is right in front of you.
No need to take the long way to get there.

Shabbat Shalom

``ህይወት የልቧን የሚዘፍንላት ዘፋኝ ስታጣ አሳቧን የሚናገር ፈላስፋ ታፈራለች..``

' 'When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.' '

                          ―Kahlil Gibran

I got invited into this movie👆👆👆

Let's talk abt
-Syria
-Haiti
-Congo
- Sudan
- The persecution of Christians everywhere

That's the real oppression. In Gaza abt 60,000(19,000 civilians) people died but in Syria 500,000. Am not saying this number justify whatever the action is still civilians shouldn't be killed. But which topic should we speak abt??🤔🤔

THE TRULYEDUCATED AREN’T QUARELSOME

“The beautiful and good person neither fights with anyone nor, as much as they are able, permitsothers to fight . . . this is the meaning of geting an education—learning what is your own afairand what is not. If a person carries themselves so, where is there any room for fighting?”—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 4.5.1; 7b–8a

Socrates famously traveled around Athens, approaching the people he disagreed with most, andengaging them in long discussions. In these discussions—or what record we have of them—there aremany examples of his conversation mates geting exasperated, upset, or aggravated by his many questions.Indeed, the people of Athens eventually got so upset, they sentenced Socrates to death.

But Socrates never seemed to get upset himself. Even when talking about maters of life and death, healways kept his cool. He was much more interested in hearing what the other person had to say thanmaking sure he was heard or—as most of us insist upon—wining the argument.


The next time you face a political dispute or a personal disagreement, ask yourself: Is there anyreason to fight about this? Is arguing going to help solve anything? Would an educated or wise personreally be as quarrelsome as you might initially be inclined to be? Or would they take a breath, relax, andresist the temptation for conflict? Just think of what you could accomplish—and how much beter youwould feel—if you could conquer the need to fight and win every tiny litle thing.

Proverbs 13:11 ASV
[11] Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished; But he that gathereth by labor shall have increase.