Virtue, not calm

The small parallel world of which I am a part is based on a fundamental misunderstanding. The "small world" I refer to I could call it "yogic" or "new age". The name doesn't matter. I want to point out that, like all worlds, it has things that I like, such as the revaluation of the esoteric way and magic, and others which in contrast I find horrible and that are mostly the trivializing and superficial approach to esotericism and magic. But we know that "shallowness" is a bit the evil of the century and is not the point of this post.

The point is that the superficial and simplifying approach to reality has created basic misunderstandings. In the small new age world, for example, calm and tranquility are overrated. So you witness people who believe that doing things slowly and appearing calm is a good thing. They also do a bunch of exercises to be calmer. The good thing would actually be to be calm when there is no reason to fret and not to be calm regardless. The world lacks vitality and mostly we are faced with masses of stressed and embalmed people at the same time, if we have to say it all in short.

The key point would be, for those who are interested, a focus on nourishing virtue. An attempt, crazy and reckless, not to feel the center of the universe and to know how to nurture the virtues by putting them as a primary thing beyond and outside of one's personal advantage.

Those who are able to do so, even for a few moments, will find that they have never felt so calm and peaceful. Magic? Not really, to put it simply, when you do your best then you have that contentment, that sense of peace and fullness without doing any strange exercise to achieve them. I know, incredible!

m.m.