John Redmon

“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence; and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.” - Helen Keller

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@rooseveltmontas @NewYorker "But I don’t think I’m a better person." - Louis Menand.

Where'd he get the humility to make such a statement? Organic Chemistry?

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@_MikeTremblay I just read it. Excellent. This morning I spent 2 hours in conversation (no swimming) with four lifeguards (ex-swimmers) on these ideas. Making virtue practicable has been a difficulty since Epictetus and Confucius, and connecting the motivation to athleticism is a powerful tool.

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@_MikeTremblay @aeonmag Thanks. No, I just swim at the same pool and the former coaches began asking me about the stuff I've worked on concerning the mind. Stoicism and meditation sometimes intersect and the mental side of swimming is crucial at the elite level. One of the coaches is now at USC.

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@aeonmag It’s called attachment to suffering.

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@sjcalibrary Perfect words eliminate all words. Perfect action eliminates all action. - Zhuangzi

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@sjcalibrary I've been great. How can one not be, after having completed the entire reading list of St. John's Master of Arts in Eastern Classics? No questions. Thanks.

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@five_books Bravo, whenever Mansfield Park and particularly Fanny, sadly Austen's least-loved heroine, though my favorite, makes an appearance.

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@aeonmag Milton was right, of course. Free speech *should* be an exercise of virtuous character and we need to be reminded so. Seen correctly, hate speech, made all too familiar in the present, is not free speech.

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@KristaW514 @Anon5813 @Savegoodstories @MargoInStPete @elsee11 @TrvlnBelle @SoniaTNo2 @pensfan1689 @KeriJaneite @ItsTwoOClockTo1 @ginatonic194 @PQuoll @then_miss @ivy_toom @Janemf70austen1 Yet it offers one of the best fathers in all of classic literature.

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... Leaves,
the wind scatters some on the face on the ground;
like unto them are the children of men.” - Homer

R.I.P. Cali 😢

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@pastnow_ I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain. - K

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@ddoniolvalcroze @crochetcreep Deep in the shady sadness of a vale
Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn,
Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star,
Sat gray-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone - Keats, Hyperion

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@Wordsworthians @DrOctaviaCox @pumps1000 He turn’d—there was a whelming sound—he stept,
There was a cooler light; and so he kept
Towards it by a sandy path, and lo!
More suddenly than doth a moment go,
The visions of the earth were gone and fled-
He saw the giant sea above his head. - Keats, Endymion

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@AnaRoseHebein Adorable Black-capped Chickadees - who stick around through winter - live 2-3 years on average. Poor things.

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@lolaaskar I think this is the best thing I’ve ever seen on the subject:
https://t.co/LxdOtWfI2P

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@aeonmag The body and its parts are a river, the soul a dream and mist, life is warfare and a journey far from home, lasting reputation is oblivion. - Marcus Aurelius

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@DrOctaviaCox 'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; / It hath no flatterers; vanity can give / No hollow aid; alone — man with his God must strive. - Byron, CH IV

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@DrOctaviaCox @YouTube summer grass -
all that remains
of warrior's dreams

so pitiful -
under the helmet
a cricket

Bashō

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@tricyclemag Once again, Buddha was right. It’s just that a lot of separation has occurred since his time (available in myriad ancient Eastern texts) to have buried the simple truth that anyone can become enlightened. Anyone.