Concept

Anxiety

Fear about something that has not happened, running on a loop that planning does not switch off.

6 passages · 6 traditions

Astrology

DivinationA divination practice
On retrogrades and timingMercury turns retrograde three or four times a year, and for about three weeks the sky suggests review rather than launch. The traditional advice is narrow and practical: this is a period fo…

Buddhist

ScriptureRead as scripture by its tradition
Aṅguttara Nikāya 5.48, “Things That Cannot Be Had”"Mendicants, there are five things that cannot be had by any ascetic or brahmin or god or Māra or divinity or by anyone in the world. What five? That someone liable to old age should not gro…

Christian

ScriptureRead as scripture by its tradition
Matthew 6:25–34Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn't life more than food, and the body more than…

Confucian

PhilosophyA philosophical argument
Analects XII.4Sze-ma Niu asked about the superior man. The Master said, "The superior man has neither anxiety nor fear." "Being without anxiety or fear!" said Niu;—"does this constitute what we call the s…

Secular reflection

ReflectionWritten for this collection
Reflection: rehearsing the futureWorry feels like preparation. That is the trick of it. Running the bad outcome again tonight will not make you readier for it than running it once did, and you have already run it once. The…

Stoic

PhilosophyA philosophical argument
Enchiridion IThere are things which are within our power, and there are things which are beyond our power. Within our power are opinion, aim, desire, aversion, and, in one word, whatever affairs are our…

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