Life, Character, and Virtue
One’s character is our calling card to life, as well as, the legacy our wake leaves behind. Our character defines not who we think we are, much less what we pretend to be, but who we really are, deep, deep, inside.
One’s character is our calling card to life, as well as, the legacy our wake leaves behind. Our character defines not who we think we are, much less what we pretend to be, but who we really are, deep, deep, inside.
Animo, Animus, Anima, what does it matter? They are all one of the same. Surprised? Colloquially speaking, animus is strictly associated with animosity and all of those deeply rooted ill feelings. But there couldn’t be a more blatant example of misusing a very profound word than this!
Sometimes life presents us with seemingly impossible tasks and insurmountable challenges, so demanding, that we don’t really know where to begin, much less if we can respond or live up to them, or even if we will be able to hold on to the very end.
Where does a fairy tale begin? How does it start? How is it created ? Where can we find one? And once we do, how do we turn it on? When is it that our life’s pages, shine and sparkle in all their splendor, and our hearts are suddenly filled with magical dreams of reciprocal love?
The most important forms of Gratitude are either celestial or existential in nature. Enough has been professed and predicated, describing Gratitude. Yet, its essence does not lie in the WHAT IS IT?
Once upon a time, in a land not so far from heaven, there were quite a few happy people, but many other angry ones. And as they were more in numbers, happiness was usually overcome by anger, And this gave way to another awkward problem; The majority was used to have their way, hence, the happier the people got, the angrier the others became.
As the crowd at the circus main tent stage still cheers his act, the joker walks back heading towards his “camerino.” He has a white plastered face, a giant painted mouth wearing a perpetual smile, a tiny perfectly round nose, both painted in red.
Today, I awoke on the surface of Mars, surrounded by a landscape of intense shades of red and rusty dust. I am engulfed by rocks and sand that soon transform into monotony that appears as spiritless as butterscotch caramel.
If we are content to oversimplify what Geniality is, limiting ourselves to mean it as something simply cordial, affable, congenial, gracious, sociable, cheerful and kindly; We rob the uniqueness and outstanding aspects of its application.
Joy is the highest level, the ultimate attainment of Happiness. It is a virtuous elevated state reaching “The Zenith of Contentment.” Joy occurs, when happiness shines and sparkles, when all is radiant and incandescent, when we are inundated, impregnated, soaked