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2026-05-20 - 4 cards

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What would the writer say about the same behaviour you have repeated three times this month?

Theme: patterns · card 1/4 · 2026-05-20

673 _Typical._--"Do all things according to the pattern which has been shown thee on the mount." On which Saint Paul says that the Jews have shadowed forth heavenly things.[256] 674 ... And yet this Covenant, made to blind some and enlighten others, indicated in those very persons, whom it blinded, the truth which should be recognised by others. For the visible blessings which they received from God were so great and so divine, that He indeed appeared able to give them those that are invisible, and a Messiah.

— Blaise Pascal, Pascal's Pensees

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What did you notice about purpose today?

Theme: purpose · card 2/4 · 2026-05-20

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BRIEF-2026-05-20-03 3 / 4

What single decision does this passage make harder to keep avoiding?

Theme: direction · card 3/4 · 2026-05-20

In general, is it at all possible by the consideration of the gradually unfolding consequences of something to arrive at a conclusion different in quality from what we started with? Is it not sheer insanity (providing man is sane) to let one's judgment become so altogether confused as to land in the wrong category? And if one begins with such a mistake, then how will one be able, at any subsequent point, to infer from the consequences of something, that one has to deal with an altogether different, in fact, infinitely different, category?

— Soren Kierkegaard, Selections from the Writings of Kierkegaard

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What does this passage say you should defend with your life, and which of your daily acts contradicts that defence?

Theme: core_values · card 4/4 · 2026-05-20

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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