Better attunement (2)

Be:

Modest in speaking.

Moderate in eating.

Thoughtful in thinking.

Dynamic in acting.

Meditative in reacting.

Tireless in learning.

Unchangeable in praying and serving.

 

Understanding in relationships.

Indulgent in remembering.

Calm in planning.

 

Happy in being.

Persistent in the ideal.

Unshakeable in the essential…

 

Therefore, remain as serene, generous and wise as [...]

The misunderstood irony of the genius

Albert Einstein’s infamous maxim about a hypothetical World War IV sounds so naive and unrealistic when interpreted literally. It seems obvious to me that the great astrophysics genius’s intention in coining this sentence was somewhere between satire and dramatic didacticism in the two parts of his assertion.

In the first, he [...]