Seneca on the importance of knowing the good life

Although we dont know our overall goal, we continue to move as fast as we can in the direction we are already going
(EM III, 269)

Seneca on telling us what we already know

We sometimes know facts without paying attention to them...
Advice is, in fact, a sort of exhortation
(EM III, 29)

Philosophy did not find Plato a nobleman, it made him one - Seneca

Philosophy did not find Plato a nobleman, it made him one
Seneca (EM 1, 289)

the meaning of mindfulness (Jon Kabat-Zinn)

Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way:
on purpose,
in the present moment,
and nonjudgmentally.
JON KABAT-ZINN

"The value of an idea lies in the using of it." Thomas Edison

"The value of an idea lies in the using of it."
Thomas Edison

Sutta Nipata - Who is your worst enemy?

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded
thoughts.
Sutta Nipata

Norwid on Happiness

To be what is called happy, one should have
(1) something to live on, (2) something to live for, (3) something to
die for.
The lack of one of these results in drama. The lack of two results in
tragedy.

/Cyprian Norwid (19^th century Polish poet)/

The Secret of Eternal Happiness (Robin Sharma)

Find out what you truly love to do and then direct all your energy towards doing it

Robin Sharma, The Monk Who Sold his Ferrari, p. 55

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Remembering to be mindful is the great challenge - Christina Feldman

Mindfulness is neither difficult nor complex;
Remembering to be mindful is the great challenge

 

Christina Feldman

Keywords: Mindfulness, Meditation, Wisdom, Christina Feldman

Read On: Christina Feldman on Stillness and Insight and Dependent Origination

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Frankl on the last of the human freedoms

Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way

Viktor Frankl

Too much information: David Fontanta

A single issue of the New York Times contains more pieces of information in its pages than an educated 18th-century man or woman would have met with in a whole lifetime

 David Fontana (Mediation Week by Weke, p. 16)

On the relationship between philosophy and psychology

We need both philosophy and  psychology.

Psychology without philosophy lacks wisdom.

Philosophy without psychology lacks science.

We need to integrate the best of philosophy and science
We need to develop  wisdom-informed science. and science-informed wisdom.

Tim LeBon