It takes having a day ruined by something unforeseen for the mind to remember how wonderful those days are when there are no disturbances. We forget to appreciate the placidity until we feel the urge to rant against luck for the plans that have been destroyed. But it is inevitable… So let the bad day be useful for learning to master anger and learn this lesson…
Tag: behavior
It Is Good to Get Rid of This Habit…
It is good to get rid of this habit of admiring with restrictions, which is practically not admiring at all. Genuine admiration ends the compliment with a period. But doing so is really hard because, disregarding vanity, it is really hard to get the eyes used to focusing on what is good. When one does not learn to do this, one gets an ever more or less bitter taste from everything, and finally does not enjoy the uplifting character of true admiration.
Sometimes It Seems That the Revolt…
Sometimes it seems that the revolt is colossally stupid, and even if we try to justify it, we can see a background of immaturity that it cannot get rid of. Above all, it shows a lack of a minimum sense of proportionality, capable of realizing that the contrast between subject and object often places them on different planes, leaving to the weaker side, if sensible, only the conscious integration.
The Repetition Is Amusing…
The repetition is amusing because it shows that by announcing it, a problem is not solved. And it returns again and again in new forms, demanding new recognition. It is difficult, how it is difficult to maintain integrity in contact with the world! If this effort is what Goethe called character, the world can only be seen as a test. And without prayer, meditation and the daily affirmation of one’s vows, it is very easy to degrade oneself in the face of a victorious world. Prayer and meditation are superlative and indispensable practices. Distancing oneself from them, distancing oneself from constructive reading, and the spirit is lost as quickly as it is strengthened when it approaches them. Only fools can deny this.