Not everyone is a monk. The demands and sacrifices of an austere life make the vocation of a monk unappealing to most people. However, the monastic life teaches valuable lessons that the average person can learn from, especially in overcoming the obstacles of daily life. Here is a non-exhaustive list. Getting up early The rigors of the monastic workday require…
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We can deplore the imposition of a self-righteousness, of a way of thinking that annihilates the plurality of opinions and the thousand ways of seeing the world. Internet allows a return of paganism while we have the impression that globalization and its standardizing speeches only make us clones. Plurality of myths equals plurality of groups Why did the monotheisms fight…
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Living consists in exploiting one’s full human potential. It is about climbing the rungs of Maslow’s pyramid one by one without ever going back below the third level (that of the needs of belonging). Survival consists in being confined to a physiological level (drinking, eating, sheltering) or a security level (protecting oneself from threats or enemies) – respectively levels 1…
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Time is one of the essential elements of the productivity triptych: time, energy and concentration. Getting up earlier means saving time and therefore increasing your productivity, but be careful not to neglect the other two elements of this triptych! 1. Go to bed earlier the night before There is no secret, the body needs to sleep between 7 and 8…
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If there was to be a book equivalent to Sun Tzu’s Art of War for the land of the rising sun, it would be the one we are going to deal with today: the book of the 5 rings (also called the book of the 5 wheels) by Miyamoto Musashi. Much more than a military strategy book, it is a…
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It’s a word that we don’t hear much today, yet “lust” has been the subject of longstanding theological debates and its denunciation was commonplace not so long ago. The disappearance of this term from people’s mouths is not a sign of the disappearance of the phenomenon, on the contrary, it shows that lust has so permeated our societies that it…
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Fighting replaceability by fighting superficiality. The tools we have at our disposal to communicate serve us until the day we realize that we are at their service through the dependency we have created for ourselves. In his book, “The Shallows”, Nicholas G. Carr explains the cognitive harms of embracing a lifestyle in which the machine and artificial intelligence would have…
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A hectic life is what is touted everywhere, whether in movies, contemporary music or social networks. But is living at a hundred miles an hour really reasonable? Are we made for permanent intensity? Isn’t there a risk of losing our skin or our soul? Let’s see all the reasons that push us to slow down and reconsider our relationship with…
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Life has become a bucket list, a list of things to do before you die such as skydiving, petting dolphins, climbing the Himalayas. Should we be happy with such a society that is not short of imagination when it comes to planning its next vacation? We have definitely entered the era of the leisure society, at least for a part…
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We are destined to fulfill our destiny. How can we act knowing that there is a destiny written in stone? Some religions readily admit the existence of destiny. What is the best attitude to have if we admit the postulate of its existence? Let’s look at several possible scenarios. The hedonistic temptation “Let’s let our instincts do the work since…
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