One could argue that it is this lack of reflecting, and of daily practice that has caused the second reason for my absence. The truth is, that over the last few weeks I have been a pretty rotten Stoic.
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Does this make me happier?
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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We can become so internally focused, we begin to avoid the external; for fear that it will damage our stoic Ataraxia. We hermitize ourselves in order to avoid that which may cause us harm.
Continue readingMarcus Breaks it down: Perception, Action, Will
Marcus Aurelius makes it easy today. He lays out the three basic pillars of his entire take on stoicism
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