A piece of wisdom from
April 5, 2024 · Friday
The quote
“The most successful people I have studied had a clear top-level goal and a hierarchy of mid- and low-level goals that all served the top one. The grit was structural, not heroic.”
— Angela Duckworth · Mental Toughness
The concept
Maat
The 5,000-year-old Egyptian principle of truth, order, balance, and the 42 Negative Confessions the heart was weighed against.
In ancient Egyptian cosmology, Maat was both a goddess and a principle, the order that holds back chaos (Isfet), the truth that lights the world, the balance that the Pharaoh's job was to maintain. When you died, your heart was weighed on a…
A practice for today
Notice one moment today when the lesson of Maat. The 5,000-year-old Egyptian principle of truth, order, balance, and the 42 Negative Confessions the heart was weighed against.
From the Bhagavad Gita
Verse 3.5
न हि कश्चित्क्षणमपि जातु तिष्ठत्यकर्मकृत्। कार्यते ह्यवशः कर्म सर्वः प्रकृतिगुणैः॥
“No one can remain even for a moment without performing action. Everyone is helplessly driven to act by the qualities born of nature.”
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