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A Taste of One’s Quality: 3 Rules for Good Temperament (Part 2)

Friday Dec 18 2009

By Stuart James Whitley | Bio

Continuing on from yesterday's post....

2. Be patient
As the Biblical injunction provides, all things good come to those who wait. This precondition for good temperament has two elements to it: time and wisdom. Part of wisdom is the understanding that active listening is a form of generosity, a key element in a mature temperament. Waiting for the other point of view, the various possible perspectives, or even the depletion of emotion, takes discipline.[Read More]

Written by eldering at Fearless Aging

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The Poetic Memory IV

Monday Jul 16 2007

By Stu Whitley
Bio

This post is the fourth in a four-part series.

It may be that memory is the Well of Wisdom: this idea is central to Celtic mythology. In Celtic lore, the well is situated at the centre of the Otherworld, the spiritual source, the land of the dead. Where it gushes up, pilgrims drink from it using a skull as a vessel, thereby creating a direct link with the dead. At the well of Llandeilo in Dyfed, Wales, this practice continued into the twentieth century. The skull was said to be that of St. Teilo, the ruins of whose church loomed over the well itself.[Read More]

Written by eldering at Learning
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