Discipline of Desire. What I learnt about TEMPERANCE when I was 8

At eight years old, I learned a lesson about virtue that I’ve never forgotten. It began with a simple image — a river, a dam, and its embankments — and it revealed what the Ancients and the Catholic Church alike understood about Temperance: not the denial of life’s passions, but their right direction.

In this reflection, I explore the meaning of Temperance, as the art and the duty of governing oneself — a wisdom both natural and divine, from Aristotle to the Catholic Catechism.

Drawing, then, on classical philosophy and Catholic teaching, this video explores Temperance as more than DENIAL: it is the MESURED HARMONY between human passion and Divine Order.
The Ancients called it sophrosyne, the soundness of mind; the Church named it a Virtue; but both understood it as the art, and duty, of self-mastery — the Measure, the Rhythm, and the Balance that make the soul whole.
This is a meditation on the Discipline of the Heart — and of the virtues we were once taught as children
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTQ_RAmVt0c&t=1051s
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