Daily Wisdom Texts

Daily text messages from a selection of global wisdom.

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🙏 A daily moment of meditative reflection

Take a moment every day to reflect on life, purpose, and stillness.

🌐 Authors from around the world and across history

Philosophers, poets, monks, mystics, and everything in between. Classics of philosophy and religions like Buddhism, Taoism, Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, and secular thinkers–all of whom have something meaningful to say to the believer and everyone else.

📖📲 Read classics of philosophy in easily digestible and applicable bites

You will make your way through full books one short message per day. Bring a bit of reading and reflection into your daily routine.

🤔 Why text messages?

We forget to read books and are inundated with email lists and app notifications that are easy to ignore. The text message format is an uncluttered medium to prompt daily reflection without having to remember.

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Taking a moment each day to step back from day-to-day activity for a bit of peace and contemplation can reduce your anxiety, exercise your mind, and focus your decisions on your true priorities.

• St. Benedict's Rule For Monks
• Marcus Aurelius's Meditations
• readings from Epicurus
• Khawaja ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī
• Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching
• Mark Twain
• Lucy Mallory
• Robert Ingersoll
• the Book of Ecclesiastes
• Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Omar Khayyám's Rubáiyát
• Nezahualcoyōtl (Nahua philosopher-king)
• The Dhammapada (a collection of sayings from Gautama Buddha)
• readings from Evagrius Ponticus
• Epictetus
• precepts of the Odawa and Ojibwe peoples (translated by Makade-binesi a.k.a. Andrew Blackbird)
• Lal Ded (14th c. CE Kashmiri Hindu mystic)
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Pirkei Avot (collection of maxims from the Rabbinic Jewish tradition)
• Rabindranath Tagore
• Sol Plaatje (Tswana proverbs)
• the Rhinoceros Sutra (very early Buddhist text advocating the merit of solitary asceticism for pursuing enlightenment as opposed to practicing as a householder or in a community of monastics)
• Heraclitus
• Rumi

In the future we will add additional sources of wisdom you can select from to customize your subscription.

We continue to add new authors/sources regularly. Please email us with any requests.

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We forget to read books and are inundated with email lists and app notifications that are easy to ignore. If you're serious about incorporating mindfulness into your daily life, the text message format is an uncluttered medium to prompt daily reading without having to remember.

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Customizing Your Subscription ▼

Yes. Reply "list authors" to your text messages to get the latest list of available authors at any time.

They can update their subscription by texting back to add or remove authors/sources, for example "add epicurus", "remove benedict". They can also add/remove more than one at a time, for example "add epicurus ecclesiastes" or "remove nietzsche rumi". If they want to switch back in the future, they'll automatically resume where in the text they left off. Note: All commands are case insensitive, so they can text back with capital or lowercase letters and it doesn't make a difference.

Sample Command	Result
add epicurus	Subscribes to Epicurus
add 3	Subscribes to Epicurus using the numeric shortcut (see the section below for all the numeric shortcuts)
add epicurus nietzsche	Subscribes to Epicurus and Friedrich Nietzsche
remove benedict	Unsubscribes from St. Benedict's Rule For Monks
remove 1	Unsubscribes from St. Benedict's Rule For Monks using the numeric shortcut (see the section below for all the numeric shortcuts)
remove nietzsche rumi	Unsubscribes from Friedrich Nietzsche and Rumi

Author/Source	Shortcut	Numeric Shortcut
St. Benedict's Rule for Monks	benedict	1
Lal Ded	ded	2
Epicurus	epicurus	3
Epictetus	epictetus	4
the Book of Ecclesiastes	ecclesiastes	5
Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching	ching	6
The Dhammapada (sayings of Buddha)	dhammapada	7
Evagrius Ponticus	evagrius	8
Omar Khayyám's Rubáiyát	khayyam	9
Khawaja ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī	al-ansari	10
precepts of the Odawa and Ojibwe peoples	makade	11
Nezahualcoyōtl	coyotl	12
Friedrich Nietzsche	nietzsche	13
Pirkei Avot	pirkei	14
Sol Plaatje (Tswana proverbs)	plaatje	15
Rumi	rumi	16
Rhinoceros Sutra	rhino	17
Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali	tagore	18
Edna St. Vincent Millay	millay	19
Heraclitus	heraclitus	20
Marcus Aurelius's Meditations	aurelius	21
Mark Twain	twain	22
Lucy Mallory	mallory	22
Robert Ingersoll	ingersoll	23

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