Think of the person who cannot stop oversharing. They speak with such rapidity, often regretting the contents after they have spewed them, telling themselves they will stop revealing so much, but they cannot stop.
The chronic oversharer, this goof, this blabber, this minister of yap, places a feigned virtue on their lack of discipline and self-control. “Being authentic”—of course, a self-appeasing lie. They do not know themselves, and it is obvious to anybody who has done the appropriate self-appraisal. Their character is performative. The cheapest of masks, there is very little substance.
At their lowest, the mask tightens. They speak with desperate ventriloquism, every thought expressed so loosely and ridiculously; tracing the source of sense in their words is impossible. A nonsensical flight of scattered thoughts. Every utterance saturates the air with their mental disaster.
What discombobulation they spread. What gibberish. They do not know themselves in the slightest, and because of the war faced in their mind, anyone in their vicinity becomes a civilian casualty.
CRANIOTOMY: Dissection of your Human Condition
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Category: TEMPERANCE
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“We usually criticize others when we’ve ceased to control ourselves.”
— Saint Theophan the Recluse -
When we feel down or anxious, our aptitude for self-control is diminished, making us more prone to making bad decisions. Sadness, it seems, leads to more impatient thoughts, and a desire for immediate reward at the expense of greater future gains.
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When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
—Emil Cioran -
There are virtues of the body and virtues of the soul. Those of the body include fasting, vigils, sleeping on the ground, ministering to people’s needs, working with one’s hands so as not to be a burden or in order to give to others (cf. 1 Thess. 2:9, Ephes. 4:28). Those of the soul include love, long-suffering, gentleness, self-control, and prayer (cf. Gal, 5:22). If as a result of some constraint or bodily condition, such as illness or the like, we find we cannot practice the bodily virtues mentioned above, we are forgiven by the Lord because He knows the reasons. But if we fail to practice the virtues of the soul, we shall not have a single excuse, for it is always within our power to practice them.
—St Maximos the Confessor, Four Hundred Texts on Love -
One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting every one else to give it up. That is not the Christian way. An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons—marriage, or meat, or beer, or the cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning.
—C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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“I shall speak first about control of the stomach, the opposite to gluttony, and about how to fast and what and how much to eat. I shall say nothing on my own account, but only what I have received from the Holy Fathers. They have not given us only a single rule for fasting or a single standard and measure for eating, because not everyone has the same strength; age, illness or delicacy of body create differences. But they have given us all a single goal: to avoid over-eating and the filling of our bellies… A clear rule for self-control handed down by the Fathers is this: stop eating while still hungry and do not continue until you are satisfied.”
—St. John Cassian -
“The outward man perishes through fasting and self-control, but the more he does so, the more the inward man is renewed.”
—St. Gregory Palamas -
Fasting is the companion of sobriety and the craftsman of self-control.
—St. Basil the Great, On Fasting and Feasts
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