“You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
-Marcus Aurelius
“I am not a wise man, and I will not be one in order to feed your spite: so do not require me to be on a level with the best of men, but merely to be better than the worst: I am satisfied, if every day I take away something from my vices and…
“We are in the habit of saying that it was not in our power to choose the parents who fell to our lot, that they have been given to us by chance; yet we may be children of whomsoever we will. There are households where we find ourselves, not by our own will, but by…
“The mind must be given relaxation; it will rise improved and sharper after a good break. Just as rich fields must not be forced—for they will quickly lose their fertility if never given a rest—so constant work on the anvil will shatter the force of the mind, but intermittent periods of rest will restore and…
“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.”― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations My Thoughts: This is a lesson I find myself revisiting fairly often. While it’s not exactly a daily struggle for me, it’s definitely been a crucial filter for my decision-making recently, especially since…
Why are we still choosing fear, cruelty and worse, silence over compassion and acceptance? 1. Introduction: War is Always Unpredictable. “Wars are unpredictable—and easy to start but hard to stop.”—Timothy Snyder Unfortunately, Snyders words have been proven true again and again by endless repetition over thousands of years of human warfare. Consider Vladimir Putin’s decision…
“You ask, what is it that has most often incited men to wars and armed them for slaughter? Not one man’s hunger, not his cold, but his pride, his anger, his ambition. The cause is always an unsound and swollen mind, insatiable in its desires, unable to restrain itself, greedy for another’s property, eager for…
“And yet would not anyone admit how much better it is, in place of exerting oneself to win someone else’s wife, to exert oneself to discipline one’s desires; in place of enduring hardships for the sake of money, to train oneself to want little; instead of giving oneself trouble about getting notoriety, to give oneself…
“Esteemed friend, citizen of Athens, the greatest city in the world, so outstanding in both intelligence and power, aren’t you ashamed to care so much to make all the money you can, and to advance your reputation and prestige—while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your soul you have no care or worry?”—…
“Don’t let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole. Don’t try to picture everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick with the situation at hand, and ask, ‘Why is this so unbearable? Why can’t I endure it?’ You’ll be embarrassed to answer. Then remind yourself that past and future have no power over…
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