Mastodawn

Spiritual maturity vs emotional reactivity is really about whether you’re led by impulse or by awareness. Emotional reactivity takes over quickly, while spiritual maturity creates space to respond with wisdom, patience, and love—choosing growth over impulse in every moment.

#SpiritualMaturity #EmotionalGrowth #SelfControl #InnerHealing #FaithJourney #MindfulLiving

Bishop Shammah Womack El 2d ago

Birthright for Beans

What happens when we sacrifice our long-term goals for a moment of immediate relief? Bishop Shammah Womack-El delivers a powerful message on the high cost of an uncontrolled appetite, exploring why true, lasting value can only be protected through discipline. #Discipline #SelfControl #EssexCounty #Faith #FaithOverFeelings #SpiritualGrowth #EssexCountyNJ #Wisdom #Bloomfield #BloomfieldNJ from Bishop Shammah Womack-El

https://bishopshammahwomackel.wordpress.com/2026/05/05/birthright-for-beans/

Birthright for Beans

Bishop Shammah Womack-El

WIST Quotations Apr 24

A quotation from Horace

The Rash, the Lazy, Lover, none’s so wild,
But may be tame, and may be wisely mild,
If they consult true Vertue’s Rules with care,
And lend to good advice a patient ear.

[Invidus, iracundus, iners, vinosus, amator,
nemo adeo ferus est, ut non mitescere possit,
si modo culturae patientem commodet aurem.]

Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 1 “To Maecenas,” l. 38ff (1.1.38-40) (20 BC) [tr. Creech (1684)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/78567/

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Horace - Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 1 "To Maecenas," l. 38ff (1.1.38-40) (20 BC) [tr. Creech (1684)] | WIST Quotations

The Rash, the Lazy, Lover, none's so wild, But may be tame, and may be wisely mild, If they consult true Vertue's Rules with care, And lend to good advice a patient ear. [Invidus, iracundus, iners, vinosus, amator, nemo adeo ferus est, ut non mitescere possit, si modo culturae patientem…

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C. L. Nichols Apr 22

https://medium.com/storyangles/let-people-be-who-they-are-b8af5e63d165

You sit at a dinner table with people you care about. One person is loud and animated. Another barely speaks. Someone else interrupts without noticing. Someone stays quiet and observant.

#relationships #selfcontrol #selfcare #medium #personalgrowth #identity #life

Let People Be Who They Are

Free Them, Free Yourself.

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DaLetra Apr 19

Scopri il testo della canzone “Self Control” di Frank Ocean
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WIST Quotations Apr 15

A quotation from Gracian

Say farewell to luck when winning: it is the way of the gamblers of reputation: quite as important as a gallant advance is a well-planned retreat, wherefore lock up your winnings when they are enough, or when great.

[Saberse dejar ganando con la fortuna. Es de tahúres de reputación. Tanto importa una bella retirada como una bizarra acometida; un poner en cobro las hazañas cuando fueren bastantes, cuando muchas.]

Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 38 (1647) [tr. Fischer (1937)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/gracian-y-morales-ba…

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Gracián, Baltasar - The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 38 (1647) [tr. Fischer (1937)] | WIST Quotations

Say farewell to luck when winning: it is the way of the gamblers of reputation: quite as important as a gallant advance is a well-planned retreat, wherefore lock up your winnings when they are enough, or when great. [Saberse dejar ganando con la fortuna. Es de tahúres de reputación. Tanto…

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Rouge Galette Apr 13

j'ai déjà retenu deux pouets de bitching inutile aujourd'hui #selfcontrol

alice 🪞♥️ 🎩🐇Apr 11

#LauraBranigan - #SelfControl (Official Music Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP0_8J7uxhs

Laura Branigan - Self Control (Official Music Video)

You're watching the official music video for Laura Branigan - "Self Control" from the album 'Self Control' (1984). This cover of Raf's "Self Control" reached...

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WIST Quotations Apr 8

A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

The hour for your departure draws near; if you will but forget all else and pay sole regard to the helmsman of your soul and the divine spark within you — if you will but exchange your fear of having to end your life some day for a fear of failing even to begin it on nature’s true principles — you can yet become a man, worthy of the universe that gave you birth, instead of a stranger in your own homeland, bewildered by each day’s happenings as though by wonders unlooked for, and ever hanging upon this one or the next.

[ἐὰν οὖν, ὅτε δήποτε πρὸς ἐξόδῳ γένῃ, πάντα τὰ ἄλλα καταλιπὼν μόνον τὸ ἡγεμονικόν σου καὶ τὸ ἐν σοὶ θεῖον τιμήσῃς καὶ μὴ τὸ παύσεσθαί ποτε ῾τοὖ ζῆν φοβηθῇς, ἀλλὰ τό γε μηδέποτε ἄρξασθαι κατὰ φύσιν ζῆν, ἔσῃ ἄνθρωπος ἄξιος τοῦ γεννήσαντος κόσμου καὶ παύσῃ ξένος ὢν τῆς πατρίδος καὶ θαυμάζων ὡς ἀπροσδόκητα τὰ καθ̓ ἡμέραν γινόμενα καὶ κρεμάμενος ἐκ τοῦδε καὶ τοῦδε.]

Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 12, ch. 1 (12.1) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/8326…

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