Daily text messages from a selection of global wisdom.

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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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You may subscribe to up to two at a time. If you'd like additional subscriptions, please email us.

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

Update your subscription by texting back to add or remove authors/sources, for example "add epicurus", "remove benedict". You can also add/remove more than one at a time, for example "add epicurus ecclesiastes" or "remove nietzsche rumi". If you want to switch back in the future, you'll automatically resume where in the text you left off. Note: All commands are case insensitive, so you 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

Reply "list subscriptions" to your text messages (or "list subs") to see which authors you're currently subscribed to.

Currently only English. Please email any requests for other languages.

Yes. Update your subscription by texting back with your preferred hour (in 0-23 format) and time zone abbreviation. For example, "update time 13 pdt"

Yes. Please email us if you'd like access.

Yes. Text back "update preference random" to receive a reading randomly selected from all the available texts (even if you haven't expliclity subscribed to them).

This way you'll automatically start getting readings from new authors/sources as we add them. You'll still proceed through the individual texts in order (and keep your current place in any you're already subscribed to), just receive a different one each day.

And reply "update preference unrandom" to resume receiving all of your subscriptions every day.

Yes. Text back to remove an author from the sources you'll get in your random subscription, for example "exclude epicurus", "exclude ded tagore".

Refer to the full list of author shortcuts above.

Yes. Reply back "exclude religious" to stop receiving any religious authors in your random subscription (including any future ones we add).

Reply back "include religious" to resume receiving religious authors in your random subscription (including any future ones we add).

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You can temporarily pause your subscription by texting back "pause" (and then resume by texting back "unpause"). If you'd like to permanently unsubscribe, text back "unsubscribe".

Samuel Henry created Daily Wisdom Texts. He has degrees in philosophy and computer science from the University of Chicago.

Initially, he wanted to receive the daily reading from St. Benedict's Rule For Monks. Some friends thought it was cool so he added them. Friends wanted to share it with their friends so he built a website instead of adding them manually. It's all grown from there based on user feedback.

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.

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