Humility and lucidity

Humility is lucidity. Lucidity in the sense of neither exaggerating one’s own qualities nor the flaws of others, and neither underestimating the qualities of others nor one’s own flaws.

 

Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar January 1, 2017 Maxim extracted from “Destiny, karma and personal mission”

Humility and lucidity

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Faith and fanaticism

Faith must be the result of the laborious work of the intellect and of the intuition, combined to the most high sentiments and moral values one bears, that is, concerning to the best of one’s own mind and spirit.

The narrow fanaticism of those who wish to convince themselves of a belief that is convenient [...]

Unburied corpses

Unburied corpses need to be buried. Psychological, moral and/or relational pendencies demand profound resolution and conclusion, or else they tend to contaminate all areas of a person’s life.

Properly released in the soil of the psyche, these putrid corpses may convert into compost for the the seeds of new existencial cycles, more prosperous and happier.

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