Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/comments/kv3rqr/winnats_pass_derbyshire_40323024_oc/ Understanding or mindfulness of death teaches one to choose the things which are complete or could be completed; and those things are the most important. You could die very quickly; but yet you have time to rid yourself of your passions. Be humble to everyone. —MARCUS AURELIUS A wise person thinks more about …
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/comments/kvcucw/foggy_morning_heringsgrund_by_schmilka_s%C3%A4chsische/ Only he who accepts that the essence or meaning of his life is not material but spiritual can be free. A slave who is happy with his state is a slave twice over, because not only his body but his soul is enslaved. O God, while I stay on this earth I want …
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/comments/kvotmc/oc_near_lake_mungo_australia_4032x3024/ There is only one true religion for all of mankind. The difference between religions—what a strange expression. Certainly there can be different faiths, and beliefs in historical events which are passed from one generation to another to strengthen religion; in the same way there can be different religious books—the Sutras, Vedas, Koran, etc. …
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/comments/kusvv0/third_flatiron_boulder_co_5464x6830_oc/ The misery of the unintellectual life brings us to the need for an intellectual life. Before, I lived in sin, and I saw that the majority of people around me lived in the same way. Like a robber, I knew I was unhappy and I suffered, and that people around me were unhappy …
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/comments/kvc034/herbert_lake_in_banff_alberta_on_a_calm_july/ There was a time when people ate human flesh and found nothing wrong in it; even now there are such wild people. People stopped eating human meat, little by little; now they cease to eat the meat of animals little by little, though it has taken time. But the time will come when …
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/comments/kv3d9y/sunset_over_stokknes_iceland_oc_1080x1350_ig/ Your conscience is your understanding of your spiritual origins; only when you possess such awareness will it be a real guide in your life. There are two different beings within you, one which is blind and sensual, and another which can see and is spiritual. This spiritual being is called conscience and can …
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/comments/kv2j7e/watching_comet_neowise_from_glacier_point_last/ Understanding our duty provides us with the understanding of our divine soul. And, too, the understanding of our divine soul gives us the understanding of duty. There is in our soul something that, if we see it as it is and give it the proper attention, will always give us great pleasure; this …
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/comments/kvlf8c/eastern_oregon_taken_in_2017_while_hunting/ The misfortunes of war and preparations for war bear little relation to the reasons given to explain war: the real reasons are usually so insignificant that they are not even worth discussion, and they are completely unknown to those who die. The madness of contemporary war is justified by dynastic interest, common nationalism, …
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/comments/kvfjo3/penguin_rock_and_the_juniper_tree_joshua_tree_np/ The improvement of society can be achieved only by the moral improvement of individuals. We live in an epoch of discipline, culture, and civilization, but not in an epoch of morality. In the present state, we can say that the happiness of the people grows, and yet the unhappiness of the people increases …
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/comments/kvki9w/saguaro_national_park_oc_4054x5068/ To love God means to love the highest possible good which we can imagine in all things. People often say, “I do not understand love of God; what is love of God?” It would be more exact to say, “cannot understand love in this world without love of God.” Real love of God …