The Best Skill You Can Have Is the Value of Silence

Each discourse offers a skill we should practise if we want to avoid common pitfalls that prevent us from carrying out our system of values. The value of silence is exemplified in the first discourse, one thing we can learn about ourselves from the existence of the lily and the bird. Because by default, it seems, human beings seem to gravitate towards sitting up in this abstract place up in our heads,. We ruminate on things we want to happen. Or not. And once you've neatly crafted a set of values and a set of projects to instate them, you end up sabotaging your own efforts.