Victory!!!

We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery - Chaplin's speech in The Great Dictator.

[Ines San Martin @inesanma]

"My client is not in a hurry."

One hundred years ago today, on June 10, 1926, Antoni Gaudí died in Barcelona, three days after being struck by a tram on his way to confession. Because of his simple clothes and unkempt appearance, many mistook him for a beggar and delayed helping him. By the time he was identified, it was too late.

A century later, the man known as "God's architect" is being remembered not only for his genius, but for the faith that inspired it.

Today, Pope Leo XIV will visit the Basilica of the Sagrada Família to bless the newly completed Tower of Jesus Christ, the final and tallest of Gaudí's planned towers. Rising 172.5 meters (566 feet), it makes the Sagrada Família the tallest church in the world.

Gaudí devoted the last years of his life almost entirely to the Sagrada Família, convinced that he was not building a monument to himself but offering a work of praise to God. He famously accepted that he would never see it completed, saying, "My client is not in a hurry."

One hundred years after his death, the basilica remains a testament to a faith capable of imagining eternity—and to a man whose greatest masterpiece was never really about architecture at all.

[Dear God @TheRich_Gospel]

Marrying a woman who reminds you to pray and get close to God is soooooo important.

[Shubhvani @shubhvanii]

Read It Once, It Works Immediately

Heavenly Father, I place my future in Your hands. Darkness has tried to bring delays and closed doors, but You are the God who makes a way I declare: my destiny belongs to You. Open doors no one can shut, remove everybm obstacle that blocks my steps, and lead me into Your perfect plan. Surround my journey with Your light, and let no curse, no attack, and no scheme succeed against me, Lord,

I promise to share this prayer with at least one person. Put "Amen to disappoint Satan!

[Victory!!! @DEPEARCE]

@erickillian @NeilShenvi 😀

[Gitz  @Gitz__]

Africans would have hate watched Morocco during the World Cup but South Africa volunteered for the position.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

As someone who partially grew up among European elite kids like him, this reminds me just how incredibly hollow some of them are.

For a quick background, I went to one of the poshest high schools in France (Janson de Sailly, for those who know) and, afterwards, to what was at the time - and probably still is - the most expensive undergraduate school in Europe (EHL in Lausanne, Switzerland).

Needless to say, many of my classmates were from unbelievably privileged backgrounds. Just in my classroom in Lausanne I had the son of a (very famous) Russian oligarch, the son of Italy's largest real estate developer and the son of Spain's largest real estate developer (funnily, the latter two were flat mates).

Another classmate of mine came from the richest family in Naples, Italy and - while we were at school - his father (known in Naples under the nickname "Il Sultano") got arrested for having bribed half of Naples's city council - which, if you know Naples, ought to tell you something.

These were the kids I was doing group projects on business ethics with (literally) 😅

Anyhow, my story, and probably my luck, was that - before going to high school in Paris - I was raised in very normal public schools in the South of France where my friends were anything but wealthy. Their parents were farmers and everyday workers.

Which means - and I'd come to realize this was very important in life - that it was easy for me to understand how big a mistake it is to see money as identity and meaning - and to confuse someone's net worth with their actual worth.

What really struck me at the time was the contrast with my "poor" classmates of earlier in my life. They couldn't define themselves by what they had - by definition - and this forced them to reach deeper for their identity: their skills, knowledge, humor, etc.

Rich kids can skip that entire process, and the tragedy is that most of them do: they reach for the readymade identity that money provides. I remember being incredibly frustrated by many of my classmates, like "ok, I get it, your dad is rich and you own a lot of nice things but who are YOU, what else is there?" The answer, more often than not, was nothing.

To be fair, there were exceptions. One of my classmates I was most impressed by came from one of Zurich's wealthiest families (which, if you know Zurich, means insanely wealthy) yet he was almost OCD in not showing he had money: driving the shittiest car imaginable, living in a small studio, etc. He was very intellectual, very contrarian, and clearly at war with the idea that his family's wealth ought to define who he was.

I only discovered who he actually was when I started my first company and he approached me to invest: to discuss the investment I went to one of his family homes, which it turned out was a literal palatial castle on the shores of Geneva lake. The guy had decided to live in a small rundown studio when he literally had a castle sitting empty a 5-min drive away.

THAT I was impressed by: it's easy to see that money isn't meaning when you don't have any. To see it when you have more than almost anyone - when everyone around you is organized around the opposite assumption - is much harder. But to actually live it, to choose the studio when you have the castle keys in your pockets - with no audience to applaud you for that - that shows real depth.

At the end of the day, I think, the real distinction isn't between rich and poor but between people who exist from the inside out and people who exist from the outside in.

Wealth just happens to make it incredibly easy to be the latter, to skip the work of becoming someone and settle for a borrowed identity that glitters from the outside but is hollow all the way through. A Potemkin village identity.

This is actually a real societal issue, and magnified by social media (with idiotic posts like this one 👇): the more "outside in" folks out there, the less people with genuine internal anchors, the more fragile everything becomes.

When you think about it, everything that genuinely matters in a society is built by people who think for themselves: they take the world in, pass it through something genuinely their own, and give back something that didn't exist before: an idea, a conviction, a stand.

Every reform, every invention, every act of moral courage in history came from someone with an internal anchor strong enough to resist the current. Remove those people and all you have left is the current.

This isn't new, by the way. Most ancient traditions warn against exactly this, from the Bible (the golden calf story) to Confucius, who built his entire ethics around the distinction between the exemplary person (the Junzi, 君子) - oriented around internal cultivation and righteousness - and the petty person (Xiaoren, 小人), oriented around profit and gain. The junzi builds himself from the inside, the xiaoren chases what's outside.

So please, do not make the mistake of being impressed by wealthy people flaunting their wealth. Don't focus on the glitter, focus on the hollowness it's trying to hide.

[BridgetOtoo's PA @bryte_bell]

@VanessaEboateng Some of us have been calling for reforms no be today 🤦‍♂️
Some colleagues are just evil 👺 no empathy nor dedication to duty. staff members are walking pharmacy, lab, etc take money without receipt.
Hmmm it's not easy ooo. You are in Ghana but your healthcare server is at india..

[Hussain Shiyam 🇵🇸❓🎈 @ShiyamHussain]

This is utter bullshit. When Indonesia refused to grant the Israeli under 17 team visa’s for the 2023 U-20 World Cup, FIFA stripped Indonesia’s hosting rights and moved it to Argentina. So @FIFAcom can stop with the lies.

[Bianca van Wyk @BiancavanWyk16]

Peet Viljoen in the US begging to be deported back to South Africa after making several videos about how white people in South Africa were being persecuted because of the colour of their skin in South Africa. 🤡

He was granted a deportation order.

[Jessica Meir @Astro_Jessica]

A timelapse view from our @SpaceX Dragon of the spectacular southern aurora seen in yesterday’s post, a result of a recent solar event. As opposed to the previous aurora I’ve seen, this one danced and snaked its way directly below us, putting on quite a show. I am in awe of this ethereal and emotionally evocative phenomenon.

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: Netanyahu will have 'no choice' but to accept a deal: Trump

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/JnAdehtdzz

[Steve Hanke @steve_hanke]

Severe flooding in Chongqing, China, has forced businesses to shut down and residents to evacuate.

Just more confirmation of Hanke’s Schoolboy Theory of History: It’s just one damn thing after another.

[With All Due Respect @cdzas]

"In Ghana, every herbal hospital has won a West African award before."

[Victory!!! @DEPEARCE]

Israel and Iran at it again?

[Joyce Meyer @JoyceMeyer]

When I tell you to resist the devil, I’m not telling you to resist your problem. I’m telling you NOT to act like the devil while you have a problem. #JoyceQuote

[Mokoni @Bizzy_88]

The target is EFF and not foreigners. They attack foreigners to attack EFF. It happens on the lead-up to every election 🤞🏾And unfortunately most of our people are gullible sentimental followers🤷🏾‍♂️🚮 They know the land question will be answered by the EFF ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾❤️💚🖤

[Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa]

I must make it clear that only the authorised government officials may act against violations of the law, including violation of our immigration laws.

No other person is allowed, for example, to confront someone in the street to demand proof of nationality.

https://t.co/E5bWVf4pTq

[𝐀𝐒𝐊 @askghmedia]

The third batch of Ghanaians repatriated from South Africa sing songs of praise for President John Dramani Mahama and government officials after safely arriving at Accra International Airport, thanking them for facilitating their return amid the ongoing xenophobic attacks in South Africa.

[With All Due Respect @cdzas]

WATCH: The plane carrying the third batch of evacuees from South Africa arrives at the Accra International Airport.