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II.2 The mean is hard to attain, and is grasped by perception, not by reasoning. [3]: II.9 Pleasure in doing virtuous acts is a sign that one has attained a virtuous disposition. [3]: II.3 Temperance is the alignment of our desires with our enlightened self-interest, such that we desire to do what is best for our own flourishing.
For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.... I know that the good does not dwell within me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do the good lies close at hand, but not the ability". [9] St. Augustine wrote in his Confessions, "As a youth I prayed, 'Give me chastity and continence, but not right away. ' " [10]
A resemblance can be found in Ecclesiasticus 21:11, "The way of sinners is made plain with stones, but at the end thereof is the pit of hell." [15] Another resemblance also can be found in one Hadith that Muhammad said: "Paradise is surrounded by hardships, and the Fire is surrounded by desires." [16]
1. Create a 'stop doing' list. Gill recommends that anyone interested in slow living start by moving their focus from a to-do list and instead creating a “stop doing” list. “Auditing your ...
[2] In the book, Brown equates vulnerability with being something hard to do and that we need to "dare greatly" in order to overcome that vulnerability. [3] The book describes feelings of shame and unworthiness and how people have a hard time admitting they are doing certain things.
Something else people should refrain from doing is putting out food for crows that can attract other animals neighbors won’t be fond of, like cats, dogs, rats, foxes, or raccoons.
In the bodies of animals, disease and wounds mean nothing but the absence of health; for when a cure is effected, that does not mean that the evils which were present—namely, the diseases and wounds—go away from the body and dwell elsewhere: they altogether cease to exist; for the wound or disease is not a substance, but a defect in the ...
Furthermore, God would voluntarily do so because "the greatest good... which can be done for a being, greater than anything else that one can do for it, is to be truly free." [ 254 ] Alvin Plantinga's free-will defense is a contemporary expansion of this theme, adding how God, free will, and evil are consistent.