It's not discipline...................

 

................................it's enjoyment with boundaries.

thanks Kurt

moderately........................

 "The man who works so moderately as to be able to work constantly," wrote Adam Smith, "not only preserves his health the longest, but in the course of the year, executes the greatest quantity of work." Yes, doing less is a way to be kinder to yourself, and to be more present to the world around you – but paradoxically, it's also an excellent way to get more done.

-Oliver Burkeman, from here

 

All things in moderation................

     The archer who overshoots the target misses as much as the one who does not reach it.  Any my eyes trouble me as much when I raise them suddenly to a strong light as when I drop them into the shadow.  Callicles, in Plato, says that the extremity of philosophy is harmful, and advises us not to plunge into beyond the limits of profit; that taken with moderation, it is pleasant and advantageous, but that in the end it makes a man wild and vicious, disdainful of common religions and laws, an enemy of social intercourse, an enemy of human pleasures, incapable of any political administration and of helping others of himself, fit to be slapped with impunity.  He speaks truly, for in its excess it enslaves our natural freedom and, by importunate subtlety, leads us astray from the fine and level road that nature has traced for us.

-Michel De Montaigne, from his essay, Of Moderation

Moderation in all things.......................

..............................including moderation:

"Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities."


-Lord Dunsany


Thanks Tom

As we used to say.................

.............................back at the fraternity house, "all things in moderation - including moderation."

I have abandoned that libertarian project, however, because I have come to abandon ideology. This essay is an invitation for you to do likewise — to walk out of the “clean and well-lit prison of one idea.” Ideology encourages dodgy reasoning due to what psychologists call “motivated cognition,” which is the act of deciding what you want to believe and using your reasoning power, with all its might, to get you there. Worse, it encourages fanaticism, disregard for social outcomes, and invites irresolvable philosophical disputes. It also threatens social pluralism — which is to say, it threatens freedom.

The better alternative is not moral relativism. The better alternative is moderation, a commodity that is rapidly disappearing in political life, with dangerous consequences for the American republic.

-Jerry Taylor, from his essay The Alternative to Ideology

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Can I get an Amen....................?

“This mean humorless philosophy which says everybody should agree on absolutely everything is not good.” He continued, “When the word moderation becomes a dirty word we have some soul searching to do.” 

-George H. W. Bush, as culled from here

So, while wandering through..............

............the Intertunnel yesterday, I found this:

Hmmm, wondering what I missed, The Oracle Google was consulted and this headline turned up:
World Health Organization: We're Not Telling People to Stop Eating Bacon

Good thing.

Part of the story is here.

On moderation.........................

All things in moderation.....(including moderation)

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On moderation......................

Again and again the Master would be
seen to discourage his disciples
from depending on him, for this
would prevent them from contacting
the inner Source.

He was often heard to say. "Three
things there are that when too close
are harmful, when too far are useless 
and are best kept a middle distance:
fire, the government, and the guru."

-Anthony de Mello,  One Minute Wisdom