🖼️ Monday Muse
The “Monday Muse” is a weekly collection of reminders, insights, and maxims on the art of living. The term “muse” has two meanings: (1) a state of deep thought; and (2) a source of inspiration. May the following (in a small way) be a source of contemplation and wisdom to live your highest good.
📌 Perennial Reminder(s)
The English philosopher Simon Blackburn (1944—) on seeking Truth:
There is an air of divinity that hangs over the concept of truth. Truth is the goal of enquiry, the aim of experiment, the standard signaling the difference between it being right to believe something, and wrong to do so. We must court it, for in its absence we are bewildered or lost or may even be facing the wrong way, on the wrong track altogether. Deception is an insult to this divinity, as well as an insult to its target. Sometimes, perhaps more often than we think, truth hides itself, and we have to put up with simplifications, models, idealisations, analogies, metaphors and even myths and fictions. These may be useful, but we think of them as only at best paving the way to the altar of truth. […]
Source: On Truth
📜 Perennial Maxim(s)
The German novelist and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832) on the wisdom of action:
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💡 Perennial Insight(s)
The American Trappist monk Thomas Merton (1915—1968) on being and doing:
We are warmed by fire, not by the smoke of the fire. We are carried over the sea by a ship, not by the wake of a ship. So too, what we are is to be sought in the invisible depths of our own being, not in our outward reflection in our own acts. …
My soul does not find itself unless it acts. Therefore it must act. Stagnation and inactivity bring spiritual death. But my soul must not project itself entirely into the outward effects of its activity. I do not need to see myself, I merely need to be myself. I must think and act like a living being. […]
Source: No Man is an Island
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Thank you for reading; I hope you found something useful.
Until next time, be wise and be well,
J.W. Bertolotti
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