Friends, by Epicurus
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as confidence of their help. (Epicurus)
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Let every day be thanksgiving day!
The practice of gratitude creates the kind of mind that is required for the practice of abiding pleasure. Therefore make every day thanksgiving day. (“Tending the Epicurean Garden”, Hiram Crespo). The other day I took the opportunity of a long plane flight to write out a list of all the blessings in my life. It …
Treating one another properly
“Part of the training of a good Epicurean consists of learning how to properly treat each other as part of a loving, caring community of philosopher friends”. (from Tending the Epicurean Garden) One would hope that this sort of training would have been given by parents at an early age! Children soak up the teachings …
The crisis in philosophy (no, don’t leave the site!)
A philosopher’s words are empty if they do not heal the suffering of mankind. For just as medicine is useless if it does not remove sickness from the body, so philosophy is useless if it does not remove suffering from the soul.(Epicurus) Regrettably, modern philosophy has ceased to be relevant. On Wikipedia it is defined …
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A basic tenet of Epicureanism
To Epicurus truth and certainty are desirable and should lead to imperturbability and serenity. The study of the nature of things has a purpose: the cultivation of peace of mind and the dispelling of irrational fears that are born of ignorance and superstition. (Tending the Epicurean Garden, by Hiram Crespo) This is the basic idea …