My early childhood encounter with wisdom.
When I was a little boy, we would sometimes visit my great-grandmother Anna Putnová in Troubsko. My mother told me that she was a very pious and altruistic woman. I was less than 10 years old at the time. On one visit at my great-grandmother’s, I climbed up a ladder to the loft above her simple “hermitage”. And there I discovered a real treasure: the alchemy laboratory of my uncle Toník, who became a chemistry teacher. But he wanted to be a priest too, if it wasn’t for aunt Eva. And in one of the suitcases, a strange book caught my eye. In golden letters, already darkened, it said: “EPICTETUS”. Surprised by my find, I flipped through the book and took it home with me. At that important time, I must have been ten years old at the most. I read the book at home and was struck by its considerable wisdom. I was amazed that anyone would cultivate wisdom! I still remember that it said that some “things are in my power and some things are not in my power. It is not in my power, for example, what people think or say about me…” The book had a strong impact on me. Epictetus was an ancient philosopher who lived in the 1st and 2nd centuries A.D. Thus, in my early childhood I found myself on the Path of Wisdom and Knowledge. And when and how did you first encounter the wisdom of the mystics, philosophers and Masters? Apart from Epictetus, however, no other ancient philosopher has so far caught my attention. Because subconsciously, I am only interested in the Spirit of the East, especially India. Compared to the Yoga Masters, I didn’t find the ancient philosophers that interesting. But I may be wrong.
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