Hooray Weekly

With the discipline of action, our ancient friends remind us that the way to live a happy and productive life is to make a habit of doing good. To put it in a modern-day mantra: See things as they are; do the right thing; and, be at peace. Today, we're on the second prong of this three-prong philosophy for living. Epictetus, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius exhort us to a life of action and doing what is right before us. No one is responsible for our happiness but ourselves. If you want a good life, be a good person. And this requires action--the kind of action that cares for your fellow creatures, the kind of action that is just and civil, the kind of action that befits rational beings.  Marcus Aurelius wrote in his diary: "Joy for human beings lies in proper action. And proper action consists in acts of kindness to other human beings, disdain for stirrings of the senses, identifying trustworthy impressions, and contemplating the natural order and all that happens in keeping with it." Meditations 8:26. And th