the most beautiful thing is the endeavor to perfect them; that's to say that the most beautiful thing is the soul shone through by the spirit.

Similarly, if you regard adversity as a problem, or something to lament, or something to justify feeling sorry for yourself over, then you’re the chump.” https://t.co/7RyA7VsA1S

You can do this by regarding the hindrances he sets in your path as opportunities for self-mastery. It wouldn’t profit you in any way if you could suspend gravity when you lift weights, or bring a forklift to the gym to do it for you.

“Remember that insofar as any of these resolutions has any virtue in it, to the same extent will Satan try to sabotage your efforts. You should expect this and not be affronted in the face of adversity. Instead, you should studiously attempt to make the Devil a chump…

Did you know flowers can tell time? 🌼🕰️ In the 1700s, botanist Carl Linnaeus dreamed up a “flower clock” made of plants that open and close at specific hours of the day. 🌸💡 Imagine a garden where blooms unfold like clock hands—dandelions at 8 a.m., goat’s beard by noon, and

This is a 2,000 year-old Roman house, preserved since the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Known as the House of the Wooden Partition in Herculaneum, it still holds its atrium with an intact compluvium (roof opening) and impluvium (stone basin for rainwater). Even more

5. Incredible jump

I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation with @derekholser. Thanks to Derek for having me on. https://t.co/Lrdgi2Y9Mn

Reducing government corruption is a wonderful thing, but indefinitely increasing government efficiency contains the same double edge sword that technology wields. All power unlocked will one day be in the hands of your enemies. Government inneficiency has prevented an absolute

To make sure his new calendar started at the right point, Caesar had to add two extra months to 46 BC. And so 46 BC was, bizarrely, 445 days long — officially the longest year in history. Little wonder it was known as the "annus confusionis", or "year of confusion".

Their entire strategy is to make @RobertKennedyJr look crazy. If they're unsuccessful, he wins the presidency in a landslide. https://t.co/QcdI7vA4Ux

They tried to take away your independent choice for president and I'm not going to let them. Watch the presidential debate as it is supposed to be and decide for yourself. Streaming right here on X and https://t.co/cNn8VVwFIl

The inherent contradictions in the methodological naturalists' claims. Brilliant session. @SubboorAhmad @LeyfMax

Religions also make use of joint attention, and can be thought of as exercises in orienting attention toward the highest principles (which might also (in a nontheistic idiom) be thought of as attending to the nature of awareness itself)

Probably the best sheep photo I’ve ever taken.

Thread on the beauty of wildlife 🧵 1. When it’s cold enough to see the melody

A few thoughts from Eric Voegelin on the problem of pluralism and realism, especially in regards to what he calls “the meditative complex" of consciousness in its relation to the reality it seeks to understand, here summarized in 18 easily digestible points: 1. Consciousness in

the LORD and Creator of this world also delegates: as St. Teresa says, “Christ has no hands but yours”

other sciences, is not the first science, and it is not independent, but that the principles of its possibility lie in another, higher science.” —J.G. Fichte, writing in 1804

This is not in any way meant as a reproach to mathematics; because mathematics should and cannot be anything else. And it is certainly not our business to blur the boundaries of the sciences; but it should simply be recognized that this science [of mathematics], like all the

“Let the arithmetician as mere arithmetician tell me how he is able to generate a solid and fixed number one; or let the geometer explain what holds and keeps his space stationary for him while he draws his continuous lines in it; [...]