BRIEF
Daily brief - Sun May 10 2026
Read the passage twice. Name the value it holds up. When did you last act against that value because the cost felt too high?
Theme: core_values · card 1/4 · 2026-05-10
On being asked why he permitted the animal thus to dirty his clothes, Towianski replied: ‘This dog, whom I am now meeting for the first time, has shown a great fellow‐ feeling for me, and a great joy in my recognition and acceptance of his greetings. Were I to drive him off, I should wound his feelings and do him a moral injury.
— William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
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What growth does the passage describe that you have stopped attempting?
Theme: growth · card 2/4 · 2026-05-10
Into this also had I fallen, but Thy right hand upheld me, and took me thence, and Thou placedst me where I might recover. For Thou hast said unto man, Behold, the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and, Desire not to seem wise; because they who affirmed themselves to be wise, became fools. But I had now found the goodly pearl, which, selling all that I had, I ought to have bought, and I hesitated.
— Saint Augustine, The Confessions of Saint Augustine
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What does this passage call the source of life force? Where do yours come from?
Theme: energy · card 3/4 · 2026-05-10
After all, one just "has no ear for it"; and so the most marked contrasts of style are not heard, and the most delicate artistry is as it were SQUANDERED on the deaf.--These were my thoughts when I noticed how clumsily and unintuitively two masters in the art of prose-writing have been confounded: one, whose words drop down hesitatingly and coldly, as from the roof of a damp cave--he counts on their dull sound and echo; and another who manipulates his language like a flexible sword, and from his arm down into his toes feels the dangerous bliss of the quivering, over-sharp blade, which wishes to bite, hiss, and cut.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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Which trait condemned in this passage do you also carry? Where does it show up?
Theme: shadow · card 4/4 · 2026-05-10
76. Under peaceful conditions the militant man attacks himself. 77. With his principles a man seeks either to dominate, or justify, or honour, or reproach, or conceal his habits: two men with the same principles probably seek fundamentally different ends therewith. 78. He who despises himself, nevertheless esteems himself thereby, as a despiser. 79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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