“How rotten and fraudulent when people say they intend to ‘give it to you straight.’ What are you up to, dear friend? It shouldn’t need your announcement, but be readily seen, as if written on your forehead, heard in the ring of your voice, a flash in your eyes—just as (more…)
Chukua mfano uko barabarani, eneo la wavuka kwa miguu, hilo ni eneo kabisa ambalo limetengwa kwa ajili ya wanaotembea kwa miguu. Taa imewaka kuwaruhusu wanaotembea kwa miguu wavuke, na hivyo magari yasimame. Wewe unaanza kuvuka, ghafla inakuja gari na haisimami kama inavyopaswa, inaendelea kuja. Je hapo unafanya nini? Utaendelea kuvuka (more…)
“Leave the past behind, let the grand design take care of the future, and instead only rightly guide the present to reverence and justice. Reverence so that you’ll love what you’ve been allotted, for nature brought you both to each other. Justice so that you’ll speak the truth freely and (more…)
Tabia moja tuliyonayo sisi binadamu ni kupenda kuonekana tunajua kitu ambacho wengine hawajui, na tunapopata nafasi ya kueleza kitu hicho, basi tunahakikisha tumeonesha kwamba tunajua kile ambacho wengine hawajui. Na tabia hii imekuwa na madhara makubwa kwa wengi, japo wale wanaoifanya wamekuwa hawajui madhara wanayosababisha kwa wengine. Zipo njia mbili (more…)
“When the standards have been set, things are tested and weighed. And the work of philosophy is just this, to examine and uphold the standards, but the work of a truly good person is in using those standards when they know them.” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.11.23–25 Kupata nafasi ya kuiona siku (more…)
Ushauri wa zamani kwenye mafanikio ulikuwa ni uyajue madhaifu yako, kisha ukazane kuwa imara kwenye madhaifu hayo. Lakini kitu kimoja kilitokea kwa wale waliofuata ushauri huo, madhaifu yao yalizidi kuwa imara, na yale ambayo walikuwa imara wakawa dhaifu. Hivyo wakaishia kuwa vibaya kuliko walivyokuwa awali. Ushauri wa sasa kwenye mafanikio (more…)
“Yes, getting your wish would have been so nice. But isn’t that exactly why pleasure trips us up? Instead, see if these things might be even nicer—a great soul, freedom, honesty, kindness, saintliness. For there is nothing so pleasing as wisdom itself, when you consider how sure-footed and effortless the (more…)
Watu wengi wanakosa uhuru kwenye maisha yao kwa sababu mtazamo walionao kwenye uhuru ni mtazamo wa tofauti. Wengi wanachukulia uhuru ni kuwa na kila unachotaka kwa wakati unaokitaka. Lakini hiyo siyo sahihi, uhuru hautokani na kuwa na kila unachotaka. Uhuru unaanzia kwenye mahitaji, na kadiri unavyokuwa na mahitaji machache kwenye (more…)
“The person who does wrong, does wrong to themselves. The unjust person is unjust to themselves—making themselves evil.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 9.4 Ni siku mpya, siku bora na ya kipekee sana kwetu. Tumeipata nafasi bora kwetu kwenda kuweka juhudi kubwa ili kuweza kupata matokeo bora sana. Msingi wetu ni NIDHAMU, (more…)
Pale mambo yako yanapokuwa magumu, Pale unapokutana na changamoto kubwa na kuona kama huwezi kuvizuka. Pale malengo na mipango yako inashindikana na matokeo unayoyapata siyo uliyotarajia, Ndiyo wakati sahihi kwako kurejea kwenye chakula bora cha akili ambacho pia ni dawa ya roho yako. Chakula hicho ni vitabu, vitabu bora ambavyo (more…)