There are only two forms of suffering, mental and physical. You are not your body or mind!

Once you accept this suffering won’t be a problem anymore.

Only when there is no fear of suffering, do you naturally want to walk full stride wanting to experience all life can offer.

When there is fear of suffering you take half steps, you only want to do what is safe.

There is nothing safe in life except death, but life, anything can happen 😁

/Stoicism

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"an operating system for thriving in high-stress environments and making better decisions"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J6jAC6XxAI

https://warpcast.com/rvreth/0x65fff86b

@maurelian.eth main feed empty bruh

Stoicism is just a bad coping mechanism

Change my mind

“Quiet competence”
http://pc.blogspot.com/2024/05/missing-from-modern-culture-quietly.html

Happiness and success is not based on how much you have, but rather on how little you need

"What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others."

Can someone explain what Diogenes meant by this?

Keep reminding yourself of the way things are connected, of their relatedness. All things are implicated in one another and in sympathy with each other. This event is the consequence of some other one. Things push and pull on each other, and breathe together, and are one.

Meditations 6.38, trans. Hays

We throw stoic quotes around like confetti at a wedding... but when was the last time you really stopped yourself in your tracks... and said, "hold on one darn minute, this isn't what Seneca would do...let's change how we proceed." And what was it?

‘Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly.’ —Marcus Aurelius

When the mornings freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when your legs quiver under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly, nothing seems to go quite as you wish - it is then that you must not hesitate.

- Dag Hammarskjöld

"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."

Whispering Epictetus embracing the challenge.

Great read! /stoicism

Marcus Aurelius had 13 children. Surely that played a part in his thinking? Would his Meditations have been the same had he only had two, or even no children?

/Stoicism