Hi,
I pray you had a good weekend. I did.
Thanks and enjoy!
Alex
The happy man in this life needs friends.
—St. Thomas Aquinas
✏️ At the mountain’s foot
Midway upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark,
For the straightforward pathway had been lost.Dante Alighieri (Inferno, Canto I)
Deviation from the truth —
from righteousness, justice, honesty —
is not always fatal.
It can bring one back
to the blessing of obedience.
One should be in the world,
not of it.
In an attempt to create paradise on Earth,
we often turn a blind eye
to the eternal garden within.
Nothing we have is of our own hand —
all is from the grace of God.
In building my own paradise,
I had turned my back on my principles:
contemplation, writing,
and a heart posture in favour of the other.
As I make my return,
I have a renewed appreciation for my designed plan,
and the dangers of deviating from it.
Transformation is slow,
growth is painful.
I enjoy the feeling of both.
I understand a little better the calling.
In working on yourself
you enable the flowering of neighbouring buds,
sharing your wealth with the world.
Like an old book,
your pains are turned to wisdom
for the thousands who never have to experience it.
Life is about writing your own book.
Documenting your journey.
There will be exciting chapters.
Slow ones,
and ones which make the reader despise you.
But you can never judge a book until you’ve read it,
just as you can never judge a man
until his time is up.
Tomorrow,
inshallah,
the page will turn.
Write on.
sapiens qui prospicit
wise is he who looks ahead
💡 Food for Thought
Measure passion, not progress.
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—Mortimer J. Adler
See you next week.
AT