How To Make It Good | Judge Not, Lest…
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🗓️ 17 November 2023
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Oscar Wilde was the victim of a terrible tragedy and a terrible injustice. At the height of his artistic powers, he was thrown in jail–an awful prison which contained the germs that later killed him. It was intolerance and tyranny, plain and simple. Everything he cared about was taken from him.
His family. His freedom. His work.
As he sat in that dark cell, rotting, festering, angry, he had a kind of slow but life-changing spiritual awakening. Coming out of his resentments and fear and despair, gifted with some paper by a sympathetic politician, he decided that his position would, “force on me the necessity of again asserting myself as an artist, and as soon as I possibly can. If I can produce even one more beautiful work of art I shall be able to rob malice of its venom and cowardice of its sneer and to pluck out the tongue of scorn by the roots.”
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| 1:14.6 | meditation but also reading a passage from the Daily Stoic, my book |
| 1:19.0 | 366 meditations on wisdom, perseverance in the art of living, |
| 1:23.5 | which I wrote with my wonderful collaborator, |
| 1:26.2 | translator, and literary agent Stephen Hanselman. |
| 1:30.0 | So today, we'll give you a quick meditation |
| 1:32.0 | from the Stoics with some analysis from me and |
| 1:35.2 | then we'll send you out into the world to turn these words in to works. How to make it good. |
| 1:50.3 | Oscar Wilde was the victim of a terrible tragedy and a terrible injustice. |
| 1:54.4 | At the height of his artistic powers he was thrown in jail, an awful prison |
| 1:58.8 | which contained the germs that later killed him. |
| 2:01.2 | It was intolerance in tyranny, plain and simple. Everything he cared about |
| 2:06.2 | was taken from him. His family, his freedom, his work, and as he sat in that dark cell rotting, festering, angry, he had a kind of slow but life-changing |
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