A piece of wisdom from
April 7, 2023 · Friday
The quote
“When we gathered together everything we knew about them at age 50, it was not their middle-age cholesterol levels that predicted how they were going to grow old. It was how satisfied they were in their relationships.”
— Robert Waldinger · Relationships
The concept
Fear
Almost every adult is constrained by two or three fears they have never written down. This page is the writing-down.
Fear is not the enemy. Unexamined fear is. Most adult decisions are not driven by what people want, they are driven by what people are afraid of, often without knowing it. This page is built around one principle: every module returns a spec…
A practice for today
Walk one slow block today and observe the lesson of Fear. Almost every adult is constrained by two or three fears they have never written down. This page is the writing-down.
From the Bhagavad Gita
Verse 2.56
दुःखेष्वनुद्विग्नमनाः सुखेषु विगतस्पृहः। वीतरागभयक्रोधः स्थितधीर्मुनिरुच्यते॥
“He whose mind is undisturbed in sorrow, who craves no pleasure, and from whom attachment, fear, and anger have departed — he is called a sage of steady wisdom.”
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