This is a newsletter where you get three perception-altering ideas every Saturday that help you become a better person.
These insights mostly come from books I read, and my journal. And I share only what I find helpful. So, please share, if you find any of this valuable.
Here are this week’s insights:
1. Blasphemy
Woe betide the people so stupid and so barbarous as to think that there is a god for its province alone! That is a blasphemy. What! the light of the sun illuminates all eyes, and we are to believe that the light of god illuminates only a small and puny nation in a corner of the globe! What a horror, and what a stupidity!
2. Journey
“The path to our goal is rarely straight. It tends to turn and twist, which makes the journey far more enjoyable than it would otherwise be.”
It’s more about what you become at the end of the journey than what you get.
Easy paths, where everything happens according to expectations—none would think of them as adventurous, or exciting.
And if you become nothing, what you get is of no use, no worth.
And only on the path which tends to turn and twist can you become something. Something different from what you now are. Something more.
3. Assumption
Do not assume things when looking at reality.
That is, see what is. As it is.
And without adding the qualities that you expect it to have.
For instance, a person tells you something about you, your work. A critical opinion. Then don’t think it’s an absolute truth. Or that that person intends to say—by the words they say to you—more than they have said. There may not be anything to read between the lines.
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