#Wisdom

The saints, sages, and unusually wise did not have quieter minds than yours. They spent a lifetime learning to govern the same noise everyone carries.

A pattern visible in nearly every truly accomplished person: the more there is to say, the less they say it.

The ancient practice of keeping mortality in view, and why it produces more joy, not less.

A defence of reading old books slowly, in a culture that prizes only the new.

Thousands of years old and still the clearest instruction on how to act in a confusing world.

Two traditions that never spoke to each other, arriving at strikingly similar conclusions about how to live.

A test the latest self-help books keep failing, and the reason the oldest counsel keeps passing it.