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Prepare For The Storm

"This is the true athlete — the person in rigorous training against false impressions. Remain firm, you who suffer, don't be kidnapped by your impressions! The struggle is great, the task divine —

17 February

The Enemy Of Happiness

"It is quite impossible to unite happiness with a yearning for what we don't have. Happiness has all that it wants, and resembling the well-fed, there shouldn't be hunger or thirst."— Epictetus, Dis

16 February

Don't Make Things Harder Than They Need To Be

"If someone asks you how to write your name, would you bark out each letter? And if they get angry, would you then return the anger? Wouldn't you rather gently spell out each letter for them? So then,

15 February

Only Bad Dreams

"Clear your mind and get a hold on yourself and, as when awakened from sleep and realizing it was only a bad dream upsetting you, wake up and see that what's there is just like those dreams."— Marcu

14 February

Think Before You Act

"For to be wise is only one thing — to fix our attention on our intelligence, which guides all things everywhere."— H Eraclitus, Quoted In Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent PhilosophersToday

13 February

Pleasure Can Become Punishment

"Whenever you get an impression of some pleasure, as with any impression, guard yourself from being carried away by it, let it await your action, give yourself a pause. After that, bring to mind both

12 February

Protect Your Peace Of Mind

"Keep constant guard over your perceptions, for it is no small thing you are protecting, but your respect, trustworthiness and steadiness, peace of mind, freedom from pain and fear, in a word your fre

11 February

Hero Or Nero?

"Our soul is sometimes a king, and sometimes a tyrant. A king, by attending to what is honorable, protects the good health of the body in its care, and gives it no base or sordid command. But an uncon

10 February

Anger Is Bad Fuel

"There is no more stupefying thing than anger, nothing more bent on its own strength. If successful, none more arrogant, if foiled, none more insane — since it's not driven back by weariness even in

09 February

You Don't Have To Have An Opinion

"We have the power to hold no opinion about a thing and to not let it upset our state of mind — for things have no natural power to shape our judgments."— Marcus Aurelius, MeditationsToday's medit

08 February

Did That Make You Feel Better?

"You cry, I'm suffering severe pain! Are you then relieved from feeling it, if you bear it in an unmanly way?"— Seneca, Moral LettersToday's meditation is a reminder of something that can happen qui

07 February

Fear Is A Self-FULFILLING Prophecy

"Many are harmed by fear itself, and many may have come to their fate while dreading fate."— Seneca, OedipusHow very true the title of today's meditation is! We can become afraid of disastrous outco

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