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Learn With Me

A Resource for Mindful Living

  • Welcome
    • Now
    • Whys and Hows
    • A bit about me
  • Reflections
    • Collection
    • Quotes
  • Influential Reads
    • Full List
    • Reading Bucket List
    • Worthwhile Reads
    • Thoughtful Essays
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Thoughtful Essays

Thoughtful Essays

A collection of excellent essays, occasionally speeches, from leaders, thinkers, philosophers:

  • Bowling Alone – Robert Putnam
  • Chance for Peace speech – Dwight Eisenhower
  • How to Deal with Conflict Effectively – Robert Bateman
  • Meditation and Action – Chogyam Trungpa
  • Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful – Gabriel Weinberg
  • National Security and Double Government – Dr. Michael Glennon
  • Neuroscience of Mindfulness: What Exactly Happens to Your Brain When You Meditate – Kristyna Zapletal
  • The Patristics – Sean Multimedia
  • Ur Fascism – Umberto Eco
  • Why People are Irrational about Politics – Dr. Michael Huemer

To be able everywhere one goes to carry five things into practice constitutes Virtue.’ They are courtesy, magnanimity, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. With courtesy you will avoid insult, with magnanimity you will win all, with sincerity men will trust you, with earnestness you will have success, and with kindness you will be well fitted to command others.

— Confucius
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