October 16th, 2021
Some people with exceptional minds quickly grasp virtue, or produce it within themselves. But other dim and lazy types, hindered by bad habits, must have their rusty souls constantly scrubbed down…. The weaker sorts will be helped and lifted from their bad opinions if we put them in the care of philosophy’s principles.
A quiet chuckle reading this meditation.
Neither exceptional, nor dim and lazy. Simply human—hindered, at times, by bad habits.
Yet, I am fortunate. In the quiet presence of others—my wife, my family, leaders in work and community, I have seen better paths walked.
I offer simple Stoic principles, though I am no evangelist. Stoicism complements my faith, yet I shout neither from the rooftops.
Proclamation so often falls on deaf ears. Instead, I choose example: the quiet, consistent embodiment of wisdom, courage, justice, and temperance. Hearts and minds are not changed by words, but by how we live.