How is your Masonic Lodge doing? Is it dying? How many candidates have you raised in the last year? Have you analyzed what you are doing wrong and what you are doing right? How is your retention? Do you raise Brothers that never come back? Or are they gone after about three months? Are you […]
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Teachings of Diogenes-Lesson 3 Light of Teaching
In winter Diogenes walked barefoot in the snow. In summer he rolled in the hot sand. He did this to harden himself against discomfort. “But aren’t you overdoing it a little?” a disciple asked. “Of course,” replied Diogenes, “I am like a teacher of choruses who has to sing louder than the rest in order […]
Continue readingTeachings of Diogenes-Lesson 1 Emptiness
Diogenes (c. 412- c. 323 B.C ) was a very playful philosopher who liked to use great wit when challenging the values and beliefs of his fellow citizens in ancient Athens. He lived in great poverty, probably begging and stealing his food, and steadfastly disdained all forms of luxury. It was because of his determination to […]
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