Gandhi is a good example of a failed assimilation. A rather mediocre student as a child, he undertook the ambitious project of going to England to become a lawyer for her Majesty. After three years of study, he achieved his goal and for him, full integration into the British elite was a matter of course. What a shock it was…
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Growing up in a family that gives a place to spirituality is not everyone’s luck. Often, we live our lives having omitted this dimension of our lives until the day we face a serious existential or personal crisis. It is insincere and even dangerous to throw oneself headlong into a spiritual life without having been initiated into it beforehand. One…
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Happiness is not doing what you love but loving what you do. Nothing really important is acquired without time and effort. On the other hand, you learn to love something through repetition. Discipline As Skill Acquisition We generally like to do what we are good at. But to acquire dexterity or expertise in a field, it takes time. Therein lies…
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A flaw is an asperity, that is to say, something that gives both depth and a possibility to hold on to. In a word, it gives contentment. It is also what makes us particularly human. A flaw can sometimes contain a quality, but the reverse is always true. Do people love us more for our defects than for our qualities?…
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One thing is certain, we will all die one day. However, many people act as if they were immortal. It is much wiser to live as if death was already within us, like a poison that was inoculated into us at birth and that would inevitably bring us closer to this fateful end. The awareness of death connects you to…
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We tend to overestimate the results we can achieve in the short term while underestimating the results we can achieve in the long term. Perfection is not an end in itself, it’s just a target towards which to strive to make ourselves better. The Cumulative Effect Of Our Actions If you do something every day for a long time, it…
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Celebrities envy you. They don’t know what it’s like to stroll anonymously through a market and meet the indifferent eyes of onlookers. They’ve forgotten about those vacations in tourist places where not a single person calls out to them to take a picture or to get their autograph. Certainly, fame has many advantages and probably much more than the life…
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If you look around, people’s salaries mostly follow this rule. Moreover, Musk’s will to solve the problem of the survival of the human species by making man a being with a multiplanetary civilization (via SpaceX and the colonization of Mars) could explain why he was once the richest man on the planet (it was actually thanks to the explosion of…
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The merits of warriors on the battlefield are often praised; some of their exploits have been able to turn the tide of war and at the same time of history. However, this image is that of another time, warriors have become soldiers and the strength of an army today lies in the productive capacity of the countries that support it.…
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There is morning, afternoon, evening and night. There is birth, adulthood, old age and death. A life and a day are alike. We have as much to learn from our day as from life. What if approaching the day as we approach life could help us live better? The Day Is Precious If life is precious, it is because it…
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