Wisdom Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/wisdom/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Sat, 04 Jan 2025 14:22:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png Wisdom Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/wisdom/ 32 32 Good Habits for Efficiency https://mind-at-work.com/good-habits-for-efficiency/ Sat, 04 Jan 2025 14:22:18 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=6124 This essay is the third in the series "Good Habits." The discussion is based on my book of the same title. The word "efficiency" frightens many people. Some see it as cold, regimented, and mechanical and think it makes life grim and joyless. Others believe it will diminish the quality of what they do. Both [...]

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]]> Why America’s Problems Remain Unsolved https://mind-at-work.com/why-americas-problems-remain-unsolved/ Sat, 13 Apr 2024 13:42:09 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=5856                                              Socrates The wisest among us have long taught the rest of us that the way to solve problems and overcome controversies is to ask important questions, seek answers, and follow the [...]

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]]> Valuing God’s Incomparable Gift, the Human Mind https://mind-at-work.com/valuing-gods-incomparable-gift-the-human-mind/ Sat, 05 Aug 2023 15:28:41 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=5408 Rodin's The Thinker The Bible tells us that God created humans in his "image and likeness." What does that mean exactly? Let's first consider the nature of God. To begin with He is pure spirit. He is also all powerful, all knowing, all wise, all loving, and all present. Also, as Jesus says [...]

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]]> Restoring Catholic Wisdom, Part 2 https://mind-at-work.com/restoring-catholic-wisdom-part-2/ Sat, 20 May 2023 13:29:02 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=5332 In Part 1 I argued that the Catholic Church desperately needs to renew its historic teachings, and the Bishops and Cardinals need to lead the effort with the help of informed laypeople. I explained that the way to do so is to restore Catholic wisdom and the values that flow from it. This essay will [...]

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]]> Revisiting Ancient Wisdom https://mind-at-work.com/revisiting-ancient-wisdom/ Sat, 16 Jul 2022 13:21:17 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4949 Recently, as I was browsing through my bookshelves, I came across a little book I had bought in Singapore in the 1980s titled A Gentleman’s Code: According to Confucius, Mencius and Others.* Confucius was born over five hundred years before Christ; Mencius, a disciple of Confucius, was born a couple of centuries later. As I [...]

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