You don’t need to be a prisoner of dead old men who stopped learning two thousand years ago.*
Ryan Holiday

If you are comfortable with where you are, you will never know how far you can go. If you refuse to change, then you refuse to grow.**
Erwin McManus

We don’t have to go back two thousand years, or
one hundred –
There are plenty of people walking
around today that have stopped learning –
Stopped living? – only
carrying the past and not open to the future;
I want to learn from learners,
From those open to the future and to becoming,
Changing and growing into goodness.

Man might be described fairly adequately, if simply, as a two-legged paradox. He has never become accustomed to the tragic miracle of consciousness. Perhaps … his species is not set, has not jelled, but is still in a state of becoming.^

*Ryan Holiday’s The Daily Stoic;
**Erwin McManus’ The Way of the Warrior;
^John Steinbeck, from The Marginalian: The Tragic Miracle of Consciousness: John Steinbeck on the True Meaning and Purpose of Hope