Jasmine Tea from a local Asian market. This is a blend of green tea and jasmine flowers. I believe it's whole leaf since the tea is long and thin. It's strong at first but it becomes an acquired taste after a few cups. The directions say to steep 2-4 grams for five minutes. I am currently using a teaspoon which is about 2.4 grams.
Epictetus: The Complete Works by Robin Waterfield
2.11
The starting point of philosophy
"The starting point of philosophy, at any rate for those who go about it in the right way and enter by its front door, is an awareness of one's own weakness and impotence in matters of supreme importance. We come into the world with no innate conception of a right-angled triangle or of a quarter tone or halftone. It takes technical instruction for us to learn about these things, which is why people who don't know them also don't think they do. But everyone who comes into the world has an innate conception of good and bad, right and wrong, seemly and unseemly, and of happiness, of propriety and duty, and of what they ought to do and avoid doing. That's what makes it possible for all of us to use these terms-that is, to try to apply our preconceptions about them to particular instances.
'He's done well; that was the right (or wrong) thing for him to do; he's unhappy or happy; he's unjust or just' Is there anyone who refrains from employing these terms? Is there anyone who postpones using them until he's received instruction, as people do when it's a geometrical or musical subject of which they're ignorant? And the reason is that we come into the world after having already been relevantly instructed, so to speak, by nature in certain matters, and this instruction serves as a foundation onto which we add our own particular views."
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