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“There is a fascinating passage in Nietzche’s Twilight of the Idols that is one of the great passages in philosophical literature, and you don’t have to agree with anything else Nietzsche says, but this is a real gem: Writing about education in Germany in the 1880s, which very much describes our educational situation today, he says: “I shall straightaway set down the three tasks for the sake of which one requires educators. One has to learn to see, one has to learn to think, one has to learn to speak and write: the end in all three is a noble culture.

Learning to see � habituating the eye to repose, to patience, to letting things come to it; learning to defer judgment, to investigate and comprehend the individual case in all its aspects. This is the first preliminary schooling in spirituality; not to react immediately to a stimulus, but to have the restraining, stock-taking instincts in one’s control. Learning to see, as I understand it, is almost what is called in unphilosophical language ‘strong will-power�: the essence of it is precisely not to ‘will,� the ability to defer decision. All unspirituality, all vulgarity, is due to the incapacity to resist a stimulus � one has to react, one obeys every impulse.� He later says, with great psychological insight, “almost everything which we crudely name ‘vice� is merely this physiological incapacity not to react.� He further states: “A practical application of having learned to see: one will have become slow, mistrustful, resistant as a learner in general.
Jeff Nyquist”
― J.R.Nyquist

“Feel pity for the person who feels they must control all situations in their life and others, and must have things their way. They’ve spent most of their life feeling inferior, and not good enough. In reflection now, the slightest issue, not going their way, makes them feel out of control. Dear Lord, set them free from their own controlling, and self destructive impulses. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.”
― Ron Baratono