Huwa tunasema maisha ni kama biashara, kwamba ukiyaendesha maisha yako kwa misingi ambayo unaendesha nayo biashara yako, basi yatakuwa na mafanikio makubwa. Pia tunasema biashara nayo ni maisha, kwamba biashara ni kitu kinachozaliwa, kinakua na pia kinakufa. Biashara huwa ina maisha yake, ambayo yakizingatiwa inadumu na yakipuuzwa inakufa. Lakini kuna (more…)
“If you lay violent hands on me, you’ll have my body, but my mind will remain with Stilpo.” —ZENO, QUOTED IN DIOGENES LAERTIUS, LIVES OF THE EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS, 7.1.24 Ni jambo la kushukuru sana kwetu sisi ambao tumepata nafasi ya kuiona siku hii ya leo. Ni nafasi bora na ya (more…)
Kila mmoja wetu atakufa, hilo halina ubishi. Ambacho wengi wetu hatujui ni siku na saa ya tukio hilo kutokea. Hivyo kwa kutokujua huko, watu wamekuwa wanapokea tofauti swala hilo la kifo. Wapo ambao huona hakuna haja ya kujisumbua sana na maisha kwa sababu mwisho wa siku utakufa, hivyo hata ukijihangaisha (more…)
“Nothing can satisfy greed, but even a small measure satisfies nature. So it is that the poverty of an exile brings no misfortune, for no place of exile is so barren as not to produce ample support for a person.” —SENECA, ON CONSOLATION TO HELVIA, 10.11b Ni siku mpya, siku (more…)
Unapokuwa huna fedha, huwa unakuwa na ubunifu mkubwa sana. Unakuwa na umakini mkubwa sana kwenye kila unachofanya. Unaziona njia za gharama rahisi za kufanya vitu na hata njia za bure kabisa. Unakuwa na mawazo mazuri ya kutunza fedha kidogo uliyonayo na unaitumia kwa yale ambayo ni muhimu tu. Kwa kifupi, (more…)
“How appropriate that the gods put under our control only the most powerful ability that governs all the rest—the ability to make the right use of external appearances—and that they didn’t put anything else under our control. Was this simply because they weren’t willing to give us more? I think (more…)
Kuna sababu kwa nini huwa zinaitwa njia za mkato, na sababu yenyewe ni kwamba huwa hazifanyi kazi. Kama njia hizo zingekuwa zinafanya kazi basi zingekuwa ndiyo njia kuu, na siyo njia ya pembeni na ya mkato. Kwa sababu tunajua kila mtu anapenda mafanikio, na kama kuna njia rahisi ya uhakika (more…)
“For even peace itself will supply more reason for worry. Not even safe circumstances will bring you confidence once your mind has been shocked—once it gets in the habit of blind panic, it can’t provide for its own safety. For it doesn’t really avoid danger, it just runs away. Yet (more…)
Sina fedha ya kumudu kitu hicho na sina muda wa kufanya kitu hicho ni visingizio viwili ambavyo karibu kila mtu amekuwa anavitumia kwenye baadhi ya mambo anayofanya. Tumekuwa tunaona kama hivi ndiyo vikwazo kwetu kupiga hatua zaidi kwenye maisha, kwamba kama tusingekuwa na ukomo wa fedha au muda, basi tungeweza (more…)
“Leisure without study is death—a tomb for the living person.” —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 82.4 Tunapaswa kushukuru sana kwa nafasi hii nyingine nzuri tuliyoiona leo, Siyo wote waliopanga kuiona siku hii wameweza kuiona, tuna bahati ya kipekee na tunapaswa kuitumia kwa kufanya yale yaliyo sahihi kwetu na kwa wengine. Msingi wetu (more…)