The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom
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June 21st: Take a walk
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
We should take wandering outdoor walks, so that the mind might be nourished and refreshed by the open air and deep breathing. —Seneca, On Tranquility of Mind, 17.8
Erase the false impressions from your mind by constantly saying to yourself. I have it in my soul to keep out any evil desire or any kind of disturbance- instead, seeing the true nature of things, I will give them only their due. Always remember this power that nature gave you.
—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 8.29—
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April 6th: Prepare yourself for negativity
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
When you first rise in the morning tell yourself: I will encounter busybodies, ingrates, egomaniacs, liars, the jealous and cranks. They are all stricken with these afflictions because they don't know the difference between good and evil. Because I have understood the beauty of good and the ugliness of evil, I know that these wrong-doers are still akin to me... and that none can do me harm, or implicate me in ugliness- nor can I be angry at my relatives or hate them. For we are made for cooperation. —Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 2.1
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 defeat, when fortune removes its adversary it turns its teeth on itself.
—Seneca, On Anger, 3.1.15
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August 15th: The Supreme Court of your mind
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
This can be swiftly taught in very few words: virtue is the only good; there is no certain good without virtue; and virtue resides in our nobler part, which is the rational one. And what can this virtue be? True and steadfast judgment. For from this will arise every mental impulse, and by it every appearance that spurs our impulses will be rendered clear. — Seneca, Moral Letters, 71.32
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July 6th: Rise and shine
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
On those mornings you struggle with getting up, keep this thought in mind — I am awakening to the work of a human being. Why then am I annoyed that I am going to do what I'm made for, the very things for which I was put into this world? Or was I made for this, to snuggle under the covers and keep warm? It's so pleasurable. Were you then made for pleasure? In short, to be coddled or to exert yourself?Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 5.1
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July 18th: Each the master of their own domain
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
My reasoned choice is is as indifferent to the reasoned choice of my neighbor, as to his breath and body. However much we've been made for cooperation, the ruling reason in each of us is master of its own affairs. If this weren't the case, the evil in someone else could become my harm, and God didn't mean for someone else to control my misfortune.— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 8.56