Mon. For Today

November 14th, Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world. Mary Wollstonecraft Struggles with the world take different forms. Where some people actively engage in combatting society's evils, others fight the battle within themselves. Compulsive overeating is a struggle with oneself. Obession drives its victims to eat, even as they recoil, weeping in their helplesness. Once the spiritual remedy is found, it can be seen that this kind of struggle, too, calls forth the faculties, sharpening the awareness of danger and fine-tuning the ability to distinguish truth from illusion. For today: Struggles of the past are not to be regretted or ignored, but used to live in freedom.