Originally Posted by
Jarod
I am sorry for your family and your loss. Depression, I assume Beefy suffered from it, is a terrible and treatable disease.
Separately, I will pray that things get better for your family. I guess you already know that good and bad times are seen as such by the participants but its really simply a personal judgement and can be overcome. I wish that for you and your family.
There are some things that are just bad regardless of what view you look at it from. Had I known what Beefs was working through I could have helped him see with some perspective. Some stuff is so bad that all it serves in this vein is to give you a different perspective on anything you used to think was bad in the past. What he was facing was more than likely not insurmountable and I wish I had been there for him. There is one thing in particular that happened that will affect everything I think and do for a lifetime.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
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