“Robbers, perverts, killers, and tyrants—gather for your inspection their so-called pleasures!” —MARCUS AURELIUS Today Stoic meditation is dedicated to desire and kind of chastising people with desires. However, I differ here in my opinions. I feel that having desires is healthy. It encourages people to grow and to try out…
Remember to conduct yourself in life as if at a banquet. As something being passed around comes to you, reach out your hand and take a moderate helping. Does it pass you by? Don’t stop it. It hasn’t yet come? Don’t burn in desire for it, but wait until it…
“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— to gain mastery, freedom, happiness, and tranquility.” —EPICTETUS Today’s post is high on metaphor. Here Epictetus has used the word…
“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 Someday I will be happy. We as humans are used to postponing our happiness for tomorrow. I will…
“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, remember in life that your duties are the sum of individual acts.…
“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 thosedreams.” -MARCUS AURELIUS I have always been an over-thinker and I have a pretty good…
“For to be wise is only one thing—to fix our attention on our intelligence, which guides all things everywhere.” —HERACLITUS Why did I do that? How could I have been so stupid? What was I thinking? Have you asked these questions yourself? We all have at one time or the…
“Whenever you get an impression of some pleasure, as with any impression, guard yourself against being carried away by it, let it await your action, give yourself a pause. After that, bring to mind both times, first when you have enjoyed the pleasure and later when you will regret it…
“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 freedom. For what would you sell these things?” – EPICTETUS I think today’s meditation is very important…
“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 uncontrolled, desire-fueled, over-indulged soul is turned from a king into that most…
