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Meditate On Your Actions — My Stoic Musings 021

Meditations, one of the most famous books on stoicism, was actually the personal journal of Marcus Aurelius. It was in that journal that he wrote...

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Start With Why — My Stoic Musings 020

“Your principles can’t be extinguished unless you snuff out the thoughts that feed them, for it’s continually in your power to reignite…

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The Choice Is Yours — My Stoic Musings 019

“A podium and a prison is each a place, one high and the other low, but in either place, your freedom of choice can be maintained if you so…

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Live Right So You Can Die Right— My Stoic Musings 018

“Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.”

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If Epictetus Was Our Teacher, He’d Say This — My Stoic Musings 017

“I am your teacher and you are learning in my school. My aim is to bring you to completion, unhindered, free from compulsive behavior…

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Our Habits May Be What’s Holding Us Back — My Stoic Musings 016

“So in the majority of other things, we address circumstances not in accordance with the right assumptions, but mostly by following…

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Clarity Is The Only Path To Peace— My Stoic Musings 015

“Tranquility can’t be grasped except by those who have reached an unwavering and firm power of judgment — the rest constantly fall and…

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What Thoughts Now Occupy My Mind— My Stoic Musings 014

“Understand at last that you have something in you more powerful and divine than what causes the bodily passions and pulls you like a mere…

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The Illusion We Have About What We Can Control— My Stoic Musings 013

“We control our reasoned choice and all acts that depend on that moral will. What’s not under our control are the body and any of its…

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Maybe Our Freedom to Choose is the Real Happiness — My Stoic Musings 012

“Keep this thought at the ready at daybreak, and through the day and night — there is only one path to happiness, and that is in giving up…

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The Way to Avoid Obstacles is to Not Focus on Avoiding Them— My Stoic Musings 011

“For if a person shifts their caution to their own reasoned choices and the acts of those choices, they will at the same time gain the…

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On Choices, Reason, Good, and Evil— My Stoic Musings 010

“The essence of good is a certain kind of reasoned choice; just as the essence of evil is another kind. What about externals, then? They…

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What really sets us Free— My Stoic Musings 009

“Some things are in our control, while others are not. We control our opinion, choice, desire, aversion, and, in a word, everything of our…

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What Seneca Had to Say about Addictions in Everyday Life— My Stoic Musings 008

“We must give up many things to which we are addicted, considering them to be good. Otherwise, courage will vanish, which should…

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7 Things for a Stoic Mind— My Stoic Musings 007

“The proper work of the mind is the exercise of choice, refusal, yearning, repulsion, preparation, purpose, and assent. What then can…

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Start With Why— My Stoic Musings 006

“A person who doesn’t know what the universe is, doesn’t know where they are. A person who doesn’t know their purpose in life doesn’t know…

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Saving ourselves from the mirage— My Stoic Musings 005

“Let all your efforts be directed to something, let it keep that end in view. It’s not activity that disturbs people, but false…

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The 3 Tenets of Stoicism — My Stoic Musings 004

“All you need are these: certainty of judgment in the present moment; action for the common good in the present moment; and an attitude of…

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Ephemeral Time — My Stoic Musings 003

“How many have laid waste to your life when you weren’t aware of what you were losing, how much was wasted in pointless grief, foolish joy…

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Education will set us free — My Stoic Musings 002

“What is the fruit of these teachings? Only the most beautiful and proper harvest of the truly educated — tranquility, fearlessness, and…

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Some words about control — My Stoic Musings 001

“The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under…

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Dragons In Our Head

And that, I feel, is the dichotomy of death. The experience of death is very different for the dead and the living.

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A World Without People — Life In A Pandemic

It has been about 40 days since I haven’t left my house and what may have seemed like an introvert’s dream at first glance, turned out to be a fool’s fantasy. I suppose the ancient adage, “Be careful what you wish for”, is quite true after all.

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Love, unlived.

A couple falls apart due to the death of a child. A mother loses her infant child. A man breaks up with her girlfriend he loves because…

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A letter to life…

“Life doesn’t discriminate between the sinners and the saints. It takes and it takes and it takes…” — Hamilton: An American Musical