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Ryan Holiday | The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance and Art of Living
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September 14th: A different way to pray
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Try praying differently, and see what happens: Instead of asking for "a way to sleep with her," tyr asking for "a way to stop desiring to sleep with her." Instead of "a way to get rid of him," try asking for "a way to not crave his demise." Instead of "a way to not lose my child," try asking for "a way to lose my fear of it." —Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 9.40 (6)
When once you have seen Jesus, you can never be the same.
— Oswald Chambers
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1 Hear me, Lord, my plea is just;
listen to my cry.
Hear my prayer—
it does not rise from deceitful lips.
2 Let my vindication come from you;
may your eyes see what is right.
3 Though you probe my heart,
though you examine me at night and test me,
you will find that I have planned no evil;
my mouth has not transgressed.
[Psalm 17: 1-3]
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June 13th: Life is a battlefield
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Don't you know life is like a military campaign? One must serve on watch, another in reconnaissance, another on the front line... So it is for us —each person's life is a kind of battle, and a long and varied one too. You must keep watch like a soldier and do everything commanded... You have been stationed in a key post, not some lowly place, and not for a short time but for life. —Epictetus, Discourses, 3.24.31-36
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August 9th: Stick with just the facts
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Don't tell yourself anything more than what the initial impressions report. It's been reported to you that someone is speaking badly about you. This is the report — the report wasn't that you've been harmed. I see that my son is sick — but not that his life is at risk. So always stay within your first impressions, and don't add to them in your head — this way nothing can happen to you. — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 8.49
we lost both piety and happiness but when we lost happiness we did not lose the love of it.’
96 All that is needed is for us to reason clearly where true happiness can be found in the eternal unchanging goodness" and direct our love towards God.
— St. Augustine, Our Daily Journey with God
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