Your Goals ©1998 NICOLEA
Proserpine, 1873-1877, at Tate Gallery, London.
Painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Public Domain)
Open Your Journal and record your responses:
a) Now, what comes to mind as you consider the goals you have set for yourself?
b) And, since you are reflecting on your goals, would you please list those goals: those that are personally meaningful to you.
c) Consider for a moment the list you have just made. Have you included those goals that are personally significant as well as practical goals? Goals which might have seemed important to you but may have been postponed into the future? If you haven’t added them to the list, please do so now.
d) Among those goals, which would you say are most important to you?
e) As you consider this list, do some of these goals depend upon the successful accomplishment of others?
f) And if so, please indicate on your list their interrelationship and order of importance.
May we preserve these philosophical beauties, and exhibit them to others. May this web site expand their elegance by the enlivening rays of the philosophic fire; and by the powerful breath of genius, scatter abroad in this virtual world these latent but copious seeds.
If some sparks of this celestial fire shall animate the reader, consider yourself as well rewarded for this laborious undertaking. Ancient philosophy has been, for centuries, the only study to break the shackles of ignorance; and in which one finds an inexhaustible treasure of intellectual wealth, and a perpetual fountain of wisdom and delight.
Presuming that such a pursuit bestows the highest benefit, I, Webmistress, desire no other reward than the wealth of wisdom, and Reason as my constant Guide. If successful, may I see the praise of the liberal; and if not, I expect no defense for failure, other than the decision of the candid, and discerning few, thus the opportunity to learn, and purgation by philosophic fire.