Don't Go Expecting Perfection
"That cucumber is bitter, so toss it out! There are thorns on the path, then keep away! Enough said. Why ponder the existence of nuisance? Such thinking would make you a laughing-stock to the true stu
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We Can Work Any Way
"Indeed, how could exile be an obstacle to a person's own cultivation, or to attaining virtue when no one has ever been cut off from learning or practicing what is needed by exile?"— Musonius Rufus,
The Good Life Is Anywhere
"At this moment you aren't on a journey, but wandering about, being driven from place to place, even though what you seek — to live well — is found in all places. Is there any place more full of c
No Blame, Just Focus
"You must stop blaming God, and not blame any person. You must completely control your desire and shift your avoidance to what lies within your reasoned choice. You must no longer feel anger, resentme
Silence Is Strength
"Silence is a lesson learned from the many sufferings of life."— Seneca, ThyestesToday's meditation is definitely something that I feel can be compared to trading.You have plenty of people on social
There Is Always More Room To Manoeuvre Than You Think
"Apply yourself to thinking through difficulties — hard times can be softened, tight squeezes widened, and heavy loads made lighter for those who can apply the right pressure."— Seneca, On Tranqui
Pragmatic And Principled
"Wherever a person can live, there one can also live well; life is also in the demands of court, there too one can live well."— Marcus Aurelius, MeditationsWhen we compare today's meditation to trad
Start With Where The World Is
"Do now what nature demands of you. Get right to it if that's in your power. Don't look around to see if people will know about it. Don't await the perfection of Plato's Republic, but be satisfied wit
Stick With Just The Facts
"Don't tell yourself anything more than what the initial impressions report. It's been reported to you that someone is speaking badly about you. This is the report — the report wasn't that you've be
Perfection Is The Enemy Of Action
"We don't abandon our pursuits because we despair of ever perfecting them."— Epictetus, DiscoursesThis is a really interesting meditation today and it is a reminder, that we should actually embrace
No Time For Theories, Just Results
"When the problem arose for us whether habit or theory was better for getting virtue — if by theory is meant what teaches us correct conduct, and by habit we mean being accustomed to act according t
Make The Words Your Own
"Many words have been spoken by Plato, Zeno, Chrysippus, Posidonius, and by a whole host of equally excellent Stoics. I'll tell you how people can prove their words to be their own — by putting into
Take Charge And End Your Troubles
"You've endured countless troubles — all from not letting your ruling reason do the work it was made for — enough already!"— Marcus Aurelius, MeditationsToday's meditation is an interesting read
This Isn't For Fun. It's For Life
"Philosophy isn't a parlor trick or made for show. It's not concerned with words, but with facts. It's not employed for some pleasure before the day is spent, or to relieve the uneasiness of our leisu
The Supreme Court Of Your Mind
"This can be swiftly taught in very few words: virtue is the only good; there is no certain good without virtue; and virtue resides in our nobler part, which is the rational one. And what can this vir
Anything Can Be An Advantage
"Just as the nature of rational things has given to each person their rational powers, so it also gives us this power — just as nature turns to its own purpose any obstacle or any opposition, sets i
The Buck Stops Here
"For nothing outside my reasoned choice can hinder or harm it — my reasoned choice alone can do this to itself. If we would lean this way whenever we fail, and would blame only ourselves and remembe
Only Fools Rush In
"A good person is invincible, for they don't rush into contests in which they aren't the strongest. If you want their property, take it — take also their staff, profession, and body. But you will ne
Corralling The Unnecessary
"It is said that if you would have peace of mind, busy yourself with little. But wouldn't a better saying be do what you must and as required of a rational being created for public life? For this brin
Where It Counts
"Inwardly, we ought to be different in every respect, but our outward dress should blend in with the crowd."— Seneca, Moral LettersToday's meditation is not really something that we can compare to t
Don't Be Miserable In Advance
"It's ruinous for the soul to be anxious about the future and miserable in advance of misery, engulfed by anxiety that the things it desires might remain its own until the very end. For such a soul wi
Don't Sweat The Small Stuff
"It is essential for you to remember that the attention you give to any action should be in due proportion to its worth, for then you won't tire and give up, if you aren't busying yourself with lesser
It's In Your Self-Interest
"Therefore, explain why a wise person shouldn't get drunk — not with words, but by the facts of its ugliness and offensiveness. It's most easy to prove that so-called pleasures, when they go beyond
Pillage From All Sources
"I'll never be ashamed to quote a bad writer with a good saying."— Seneca, On Tranquility of MindIf something is useful for you in every day life or in trading too of course, then don't be put off w
Respect The Past, But Be Open To The Future
"Won't you be walking in your predecessors' footsteps? I surely will use the older path, but if I find a shorter and smoother way, I'll blaze a trail there. The ones who pioneered these paths aren't o
Seeking Out Shipwrecks
"I was shipwrecked before I even boarded . . . the journey showed me this — how much of what we have is unnecessary, and how easily we can decide to rid ourselves of these things whenever it's neces
Laugh, Or Cry?
"Heraclitus would shed tears whenever he went out in public — Democritus laughed. One saw the whole as a parade of miseries, the other of follies. And so, we should take a lighter view of things and
The Opulent Stoic
"The founder of the universe, who assigned to us the laws of life, provided that we should live well, but not in luxury. Everything needed for our well-being is right before us, whereas what luxury re
Want Nothing = Have Everything
"No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don't have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have."— Seneca, Moral LettersAnother
When You Feel Lazy
"Anything that must yet be done, virtue can do with courage and promptness. For anyone would call it a sign of foolishness for one to undertake a task with a lazy and begrudging spirit, or to push the
Consider Your Failings Too
"Whenever you take offense at someone's wrongdoing, immediately turn to your own similar failings, such as seeing money as good, or pleasure, or a little fame — whatever form it takes. By thinking o