At the friends meeting today, I realized something about myself that I dwelt on during the drive home. We live in a world of candy. We're surrounded by sweet distracting tastes and we're used to being distracted by one feeling or another. I am. I don't want that.
I also realized that I lack discipline. I want to control the world around me, rather than controlling the world inside me. I'd like to change that, however hard it may be. It's a project work my time.
I wonder if that's what Socrates meant when he said, "know thyself." We can know so many things, but if we are strangers to ourselves, if we lack self-control, it gains us very little.
I also realized that I lack discipline. I want to control the world around me, rather than controlling the world inside me. I'd like to change that, however hard it may be. It's a project work my time.
I wonder if that's what Socrates meant when he said, "know thyself." We can know so many things, but if we are strangers to ourselves, if we lack self-control, it gains us very little.
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