{"id":2694,"date":"2021-03-01T10:41:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T10:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/03\/01\/lent-and-media-dreck\/"},"modified":"2021-03-01T10:41:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T10:41:33","slug":"lent-and-media-dreck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/03\/01\/lent-and-media-dreck\/","title":{"rendered":"Lent and Media Dreck"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lent is a good time for a plenary news fast, or, if you can't quite manage that, a time to moderate your intake of media dreck. It suffices to be aware of the overall drift of events as the Left pursues its pernicious purposes; there is no necessity of recording every particular outrage.  And this for two reasons. First, there is little we can do about it; second, it's a passing scene soon to pass away entirely, and we with it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Precious peace of mind ought not be sacrificed on the altar of activism.  Just keep an eye on what is coming down the pike so as to be ready before it arrives.<\/span><\/p>\n

When Henry David Thoreau was asked whether he had read the news about the fire at so-and-so's farm, he replied that he didn't need to: he understood the principle of the thing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Every day should include some time for the cultivation of one's higher nature.  Unlike the lower nature, it needs cultivating.<\/span><\/p>\n

From time to time, however, we should devote special<\/em> time to be still and listen beyond the human horizon.  Modern man, crazed little hustler and  self-absorbed chatterbox that he is, needs to enter his depths and listen.<\/span><\/p>\n

"Be still, and know that I am God."  (Psalm 46:10)<\/span><\/p>\n

"Man is a stream whose source is hidden." (Emerson) This beautifully crafted observation sets us a task: Swim upstream to the Source of one's out-bound consciousness where one will draw close to the Divine Principle.<\/span><\/p>\n

Noli foras ire, in te ipsum reddi; in interiore homine habitat veritas<\/em>.  "The truth dwells in the inner man; don't go outside yourself: return within." (St. Augustine) <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lent is a good time for a plenary news fast, or, if you can't quite manage that, a time to moderate your intake of media dreck. It suffices to be aware of the overall drift of events as the Left pursues its pernicious purposes; there is no necessity of recording every particular outrage.  And this … Continue reading “Lent and Media Dreck”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[578,579,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aspiration","category-ataraxia","category-spiritual-exercises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}