My God, may I ask you. I came across this quote from Montaigne in an article in my newspaper about a biography of Michel de Montaigne written by Stefan Zweig:
Take care of yourself, save within you what can be saved. Build while others are destroying, try to be wise in the midst of all the madness. Shut down. Build your own world.
His words seem more relevant than ever.
My son, they are no more relevant than ever. The world is no worse than it was 100 or 1000 years ago. But his words may be placed on a golden scale. Because there is one very big difference with earlier times. Now you are also bombarded by social media with the delusions of the outside world in the intimacy of your own living room, in your easy chair or warm bed. And that wasn't the case before.
And you do not realize how much the dynamic, hard, exciting outside world, and certainly the mass media with their focus on suffering, sensation and panic, thunders hard into your safe inner world and worries you and emotionally puts a lot of strain on and disadvantages you. And that day and night. We find it intense for you.
That is why you should cherish his words, build your own inner world, protect yourself from the issues of the day, build your own safe and protected inner temple where no one is allowed to go uninvited. Guard your own inner fortress. For when you die, that is the only thing you take with you to the spiritual world. And the stronger and healthier the fortress, the more powerful the start in the spiritual world.
And this fortress is affected by the social media not strengthened.
Montaigne is
blessed.
My blessings to you all
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