Mastery of reading and writing requires a master. Still more so life.
Meditations, 11:29. Maybe 10:29.
Maybe the Fourth Way people are right. You need a School. A Teacher.
Agreed. It’s too easy to lie to myself, to cut myself some slack.
More important, I don’t know what “good” looks like. An unenlightened mind can’t enlighten itself. A teacher knows what mastery looks like.
At least I’m fixing this in a technical matter starting in February: I’m enrolled in the Symbolic Logic course.
Yes, but that’s a technical skill. Marcus Aurelius is talking about life. What about mastery over the important stuff? You have done this before. Bob. Tom. Ed. So many others. Gino. Glenn. Go find more men like the ones who opened your eyes years ago.
It’s essential to read, and you can get a lot from recordings and videos. But you need a human who presses you where you are lying to yourself, or have a blind spot. As Bob used to say, you must have human help. God is not enough.
Here’s your job.
Put this message out to the universe: that you seek a teacher. Start observing. Look for the quiet, calm man who has nothing to prove. You will find him.