DAY 18
Essays
Essais
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK
How honestly do I face my imperfect, contradictory self, and accept it just as it is?
📝ONGO's Reflection
Reading Montaigne's Essays is like talking the night away before the fireplace with the most intelligent and humorous of friends. Instead of preaching some grand philosophical truth, he confesses without reserve his own flaws, his whims, even the ailments of his body. Before his humility in asking, Que sais-je?, what do I know?, even my vanity is disarmed. If you wish to learn how to affirm your imperfect self exactly as it is, there is no more perfect book than this.
— ONGO · Curator
"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."Michel de Montaigne, Essays
"세상에서 가장 위대한 일은 자기 자신이 되는 법을 아는 것이다."
🌱Apply It Today
Quietly call to mind one petty flaw or complex you most wanted to hide from others. Then write in your journal, warmly accepting even that as a precious part of who you are.
📚 Read for Free · Public Domain
✦ Threads woven through this book
🎵 A Track That Fits This Book · today's feel
悠悠自適
Easy on My Time
유유자적 · leisurely freedom
Listen
✦ Wisdom that echoes this book
🕯️ LAMP OF WISDOM
A Whisper Separates Friends
Proverbs 16:28 →
🕯️ LAMP OF WISDOM
A Friend Loves at All Times
Proverbs 17:17 →
🕯️ LAMP OF WISDOM
A Fool Delights Only in His Own Opinion
Proverbs 18:2 →
🎬 SCREEN'S QUESTION
Festival
Is the funeral around a person's death a place of grief, or a place where the living relearn how to live? →
🎬 SCREEN'S QUESTION
Babette's Feast
Is pouring all one has into a single banquet foolish waste, or a whole devotion to life? →
🎬 SCREEN'S QUESTION
Groundhog Day
When the same day repeats endlessly, what does a person learn to break free of that meaningless loop? →
