How to Be Perfect (First Year Read, 2023)

"Peace is something that we can cultivate in our daily lives. It is possible to cultivate peace in every moment of our daily lives, while we walk, while we talk, while we sit. I know that peace is made of two elements. The first is understanding and the second is compassion. Cultivating peace means cultivating understanding and cultivating compassion. Every time we go back to ourselves we have the opportunity to do the work of cultivating peace. Every time I breathe in or I make a step I have an opportunity to go back to myself and become fully present in the here and the now." (From the abstract)

"When we produce a thought that is full of anger, fear, or despair, that thought has an immediate effect on our health and on the health of the world. We may like to arrange our life in such a way that we will not produce thoughts of that kind very often." (From the abstract)

The teachings of Moses ben Maimon (Maimonides) (1138–1204).

The life and philosophy of William James (1842-1910).

Pragmatism, its ideas and major thinkers.