Monday Meditation – Cameron's Blog https://cameronblewett.blog yep. it's another place for cameron to rant... Mon, 10 Apr 2023 03:59:35 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://cameronblewett.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/camerons-rants-150x150.png Monday Meditation – Cameron's Blog https://cameronblewett.blog 32 32 Accomplish Something Good With Hard Work https://cameronblewett.blog/accomplish-something-good-with-hard-work/ https://cameronblewett.blog/accomplish-something-good-with-hard-work/#respond Sun, 09 Apr 2023 23:00:00 +0000 https://cameronblewett.blog/?p=14430&preview=true&preview_id=14430 If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labor passes quickly, but the good endures; if you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures.~ Musonius Rufus Why do we so often seek those quick fix pleasures nothing that we will feel guilty about it once the ... Read more

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]]> https://cameronblewett.blog/accomplish-something-good-with-hard-work/feed/ 0 Refrain From Following Those Who Crave Attention https://cameronblewett.blog/refrain-from-following-those-who-crave-attention/ https://cameronblewett.blog/refrain-from-following-those-who-crave-attention/#respond Sun, 03 Mar 2019 23:30:42 +0000 https://cameronblewett.blog/?p=7031 Let me give you, though, this one piece of advice: refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement, by doing certain things which are calculated to give rise to comment on your appearance or way of living generally.– Seneca

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]]> https://cameronblewett.blog/keeping-up-with-the-joneses/feed/ 0 What Would They Do? https://cameronblewett.blog/what-would-they-do/ https://cameronblewett.blog/what-would-they-do/#respond Sun, 17 Feb 2019 23:39:35 +0000 https://cameronblewett.blog/?p=6957 “We need to set our affections on some good man and keep him constantly before our eyes, so that we may live as if he were watching us and do everything as if he saw what we were doing.”
> This, my dear Lucilius, is Epicurus’ advice, and in giving it he has given us a guardian and a moral tutor – and not without reason, either: misdeeds are greatly diminished if a witness is always standing near intending doers.
– Seneca

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