By knowing what we can and can’t control, by loving fate, by knowing that our perceptions are not fact, and by filling our lives with mindfulness and gratitude, we can live effective lives. Effective and, crucially, happy lives.
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Move Thyself…
For the vast majority of those things, those obstacles, there is nothing we could do to avoid them. Still less we can do to remove them from our path. What we can control, is our perceptions of the obstacle and how we choose to react.
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The stoics ask us to go even further than acceptance though. They tell us not just to accept fate, but to love fate. Realize that in so many moments in our life, the thing that we thought a curse, is, in fact, a blessing.
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