'A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts To Nourish the Soul' is an anthology of ancient and classic texts, curated by Leo Tolstoy, which fulfilled his fifteen-year dream of "collecting the wisdom of the centuries in one book." It's a day-by-day guide that illuminates the path of a life worth living. [1] I discovered, and purchased, Calendar of Wisdom as a result of @Ryan Holiday's recommendation, sent to his email newsletter titled 'The (Very) Best Books I Read in 2018'. As Holiday summarized,
Each day draws on Chinese, Jewish, Stoic, Christian, Indian and Arabic sources (he quotes everyone from Emerson to Marcus Aurelius to Lao-Tzu) and manages to give good, actionable advice from all of these differing schools. [...] This book should be much, much more popular and I promise your mornings will be improved if you start them with it.
I used to read Calendar of Wisdom every morning, first thing after @My Meditation, for four years. ::embed[https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/07/21/leo-tolstoy-kindness-calendar-of-wisdom/?mc_cid=e0775e417c]{provider=brainpickings,type=card}
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- #bookclub (See: @Citizens' Bookclub)
- #frequently-reading