Beware of the indulging in ease, avoiding labor and exertion, becoming habitually idle, lazy, inactive, as, an indolent man!
The use of manual labor is one which never grows obsolete. Manual labor is the study of the external world.
Labor is God’s education. No separation from labor can be without some loss of power and of truth to the seer himself. (Emerson)
The simplicity of life, language, and habits empowers people, but luxurious lifestyle, pretentious language and effeminate habits lead to weakness and death. (John Ruskin)
It’s not by meeting your idle desires that freedom can be achieved, but, on the contrary, by freeing yourself from the desires. (Epictetus)
People are constantly looking for new entertainments and pleasures, hoping that way to quiet their worries and reach happiness. But this way they can't get satisfaction, because a man looking for his own pleasure is never satisfied: having received what he wanted, he is not settling down, but right away feels the new desires, which are not yet satisfied. (Tolstoy)
Busyness of city is just a distraction from self, a palliative measure, not a solution or cure from such mental diseases, which are nothing more than our Author's calls to the conscious life. The more a person distances himself, ignores these calls, the more painful their hunt will be to him.
"People are looking for pleasures, throwing themselves from side to side, because they feel the emptiness of their lives." (Blaise Pascal)
"Dead are those who, immersed into transient and carnal cares, do not even know that they have a soul, which demands its liberation, and of that to live means to fight, means to die, that only this way can the great liberation be achieved." (de Lamennais)
The solution is only in one: in living simpler, and taking time to ponder about the meaning of human life. For that, the writings by Leo Tolstoy are priceless: http://www.earthlyfireflies.org/works-by-leo-tolstoy/
Those who grabbed the power over the world collapse socialism everywhere you see - China, Russia, merging of Korea, relationship with Cuba... because capitalism has proven to provide them better slaves. Watch for more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=583B33gySIM&list=PLrsYCDA5sk....
We can't think of capitalism as 'market' economy anymore - with few (no more than four) corporations dictating there conditions and prices, there's no more 'market' relationship.
But socialism is no better.
"Don’t believe that your life can be better or worse depending on this or that arrangement. For our life to be good, there’s only one remedy: for people themselves to be better, and stop supporting the oppressing governing powers.
Regardless of the type of government, the calamities it causes:
- ever-increasing budgets & taxes;
- animosity towards neighbors, military preps & armies;
- enslaving of subject races;
- undermining morality."
(Leo Tolstoy, On the Importance of the Upcoming Moral Revolution http://www.earthlyfireflies.org/works-by-leo-tolstoy/)
The use of manual labor is one which never grows obsolete. Manual labor is the study of the external world. Labor is God’s education. No separation from labor can be without some loss of power and of truth to the seer himself. (Emerson)
The simplicity of life, language, and habits empowers people, but luxurious lifestyle, pretentious language and effeminate habits lead to weakness and death. (John Ruskin)
It’s not by meeting your idle desires that freedom can be achieved, but, on the contrary, by freeing yourself from the desires. (Epictetus)
People are constantly looking for new entertainments and pleasures, hoping that way to quiet their worries and reach happiness. But this way they can't get satisfaction, because a man looking for his own pleasure is never satisfied: having received what he wanted, he is not settling down, but right away feels the new desires, which are not yet satisfied. (Tolstoy)