Day: June 26, 2025
"The truly virtuous person doesn’t just do the right thing; he also desires rightly."
Though it is perfectly natural to experience sadness over loss or injury, the virtue of patience enables us to bear suffering without being broken by sorrow or led to forsake the way of virtue.
We need patience to endure the sorrow that besets us so that we do not betray the good we have.
It is a mistake to think that the natural me that I wish to flaunt is a thing of great value in itself.
"I think the wise person’s essential gift is tender receptivity."
We think we need every question answered. Our brains tell us we do. We don’t.