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Fellow philosophers,
Thank you for joining me in our exploration of stimulus, response, and the space in between. I hope you found it rewarding.
As always, I’ll paste a roundup with each episode highlighted below, most have an audio version so you can listen like a podcast.
Let us know what you thought, we’re excited to hear your feedback!
Have a restful weekend, we’ll see you next week,
Matt
Monday
In some ways, being human is just like that.
On one hand we can paint the Sistine Chapel, visit the moon, and love even our enemies.
On the other hand, we can be overcome with emotions like rage, jealousy, and resentment starting wars and taking human life.
Tuesday
There is a perplexing tension between our aspirations and the reality of feeling tired, hungry, stressed-out, afraid, bored, angry, or whatever we experience in any given moment of our life.
—Pema Chodron
Wednesday
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
— Viktor E. Frankl
Thursday
Essentially, Shantideva is either positing that people are either inherently bad—in which case we shouldn’t be angry when they act poorly to us—that would be like being angry at fire for its heat.
On the other hand, if people are inherently good, then we must extend to them the compassion we desire in our moments of temporary fear, anger, anxiety, or lashing out.