“Don’t be bounced around, but submit every impulse to the claims of justice, and protect your clear conviction in every appearance.” Marcus Aurelius I think I have learned today’s lesson a hard way in my life. I was the type of person who lives from moment to moment. Finding the…
“Who then is invincible? The one who cannot be upset by anything outside their reasoned choice.” Epictetus Today’s post expands on the idea of ‘Prohairesis‘ as explained by Epictetus. As per the definition: Nothing is properly considered either good, or bad, aside from those things that are within our own…
“When I see an anxious person, I ask myself, what do they want? For if a person wasn’t wanting something outside of their own control, why would they be stricken by anxiety?” Epictetus In this post, I am not going to downplay anxiety issues that many people do face. I…
Autobiography of a Yogi is an autobiography of Paramahansa Yogananda. This book has got some very good reviews and even promoted by Steve Jobs, Virat Kohli, and others and hence I was quite excited when I picked up this book. I expected that this book will take me on a…
They say that it will happen when it is meant to be They say that you have to let go of few things You have to trust in God and adjust somewhere along the line How do I tell them that there is no meant to be That the whole…
“Frame your thoughts like this—you are an old person, you won’t let yourself be enslaved by this any longer, no longer pulled like a puppet by every impulse, and you’ll stop complaining about your present fortune or dreading the future.” MARCUS AURELIUS As a part of growing up, we sought…
‘The Sun is also a star’ is a contemporary young adult fiction by Nicola Yoon. This is my first book by Nicola Yoon although she is known more for her book Everything, Everything. This is a story about Natasha, a high school black girl living in America, who is an…
“Keep this thought handy when you feel a fit of rage coming on—it isn’t manly to be enraged. Rather, gentleness and civility are more human, and therefore manlier. A real man doesn’t give way to anger and discontent, and such a person has strength, courage, and endurance—unlike the angry and…
“Don’t return to philosophy as a task-master, but as patients seek out relief in the treatment of sore eyes, or a dressing for a burn, or from an ointment. Regarding it this way, you’ll obey reason without putting it on display and rest easy in its care.” MARCUS AURELIUS I…
“If you wish to improve, be content to appear clueless or stupid in extraneous matters—don’t wish to seem knowledgeable. And if some regard you as important, distrust yourself.” EPICTETUS When I was a kid, I was taught to read newspapers daily. I remember one time my grandfather’s friend, who was…
