A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
Hippocrates
Hippocrates
Forwarded from Polina Sarris
Hail Apollon, divine healer, guide my hands.
Grant me skill to mend, wisdom to ease suffering,
And strength to care for those who cannot speak their pain.
Hail Artemis, protector of beasts, stand beside me.
Watch over the wild and the weak,
Lend me patience and compassion in their care.
With devotion, I honor you both,
Now and always.
Hail Apollon Paian! Hail Artemis Agrotera!
Grant me skill to mend, wisdom to ease suffering,
And strength to care for those who cannot speak their pain.
Hail Artemis, protector of beasts, stand beside me.
Watch over the wild and the weak,
Lend me patience and compassion in their care.
With devotion, I honor you both,
Now and always.
Hail Apollon Paian! Hail Artemis Agrotera!
Delphic Maxim 33:
Guard what is yours
(Ιδια φυλαττε)
This is a warning, that we should not be blind to risk and danger, even when we are people of goodwill and trust. The idea of “what is yours” has a more extensive meaning than merely your material property. You have your interests, you intellectual property, your dignity. All these things shape and make you, and it is prudent and just to look after your interests. Being good does not mean you have to give away all that is yours and thus ruin yourself through unlimited generosity and kindness. It is too often the misunderstood zeal of being good, whereby people ruin themselves; they give all away, open their doors to strangers and find themselves robbed for the foolish trust. The wise man looks after his interests and his belongings.
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Guard what is yours
(Ιδια φυλαττε)
This is a warning, that we should not be blind to risk and danger, even when we are people of goodwill and trust. The idea of “what is yours” has a more extensive meaning than merely your material property. You have your interests, you intellectual property, your dignity. All these things shape and make you, and it is prudent and just to look after your interests. Being good does not mean you have to give away all that is yours and thus ruin yourself through unlimited generosity and kindness. It is too often the misunderstood zeal of being good, whereby people ruin themselves; they give all away, open their doors to strangers and find themselves robbed for the foolish trust. The wise man looks after his interests and his belongings.
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Every transformation demands as its precondition "the ending of a world"-the collapse of an old philosophy of life.
C.G. Jung
C.G. Jung
Shining Apollo, bright-haired son of Zeus
and tender-hearted Leto who bore you on the shores
of free-floating Delos, brother of Artemis
of the silver shafts, lover of truth who knows
what will be, who grants the gift of foreknowledge
to those who seek, patron of the wise Pythia
who sits at the center of the world. Apollo,
friend of the lovely Muses, player of sweet songs
upon the lyre, healer of plagues, defender
against all evil, ever-youthful one whose hands
are deft, whose arm is strong, whose bow-string taut and thick
looses a rain of arrows, enough to dim the sun.
Fairest of gods, long of lock and smooth of cheek,
laurel-crowned one, I thank you for your blessings.
and tender-hearted Leto who bore you on the shores
of free-floating Delos, brother of Artemis
of the silver shafts, lover of truth who knows
what will be, who grants the gift of foreknowledge
to those who seek, patron of the wise Pythia
who sits at the center of the world. Apollo,
friend of the lovely Muses, player of sweet songs
upon the lyre, healer of plagues, defender
against all evil, ever-youthful one whose hands
are deft, whose arm is strong, whose bow-string taut and thick
looses a rain of arrows, enough to dim the sun.
Fairest of gods, long of lock and smooth of cheek,
laurel-crowned one, I thank you for your blessings.
Forwarded from Stoicism Quotes 🙏
“First tell yourself what kind of person you want to be, then do what you have to do. For in nearly every pursuit we see this to be the case. Those in athletic pursuit first choose the sport they want, and then do that work.”
—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.23.1–2a
—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.23.1–2a
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Epictetus
Epictetus