Where to look when you are… seeking for clarity
We are constantly making split- second decisions based on years of experience and knowledge as well as using the same skill to confirm prejudices, stereotypes, and assumptions. Clearly, the former thinking is a source of strength, whereas the latter is a great weakness.
—Malcolm Gladwell, Blink(resource) Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom
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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 those dreams.
—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 6.31
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May 23rd: Show me how to live
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Show me that the good life doesn't consist in its length, but in its use, and that it is possible- no, entirely too common for a person who has had a long life to have lived too little.
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July 9th: The philosopher king
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
For I believe a good king is from the outset and by necessity a philosopher , and the philosopher is from the outset a kingly person — Musonius Rufus, Lectures, 8.33.32-34
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January 24th: Push for deep understanding
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
From Rusticus... I learned to read carefully and not be satisfied with a rough understanding of the whole and not to agree too quickly with those who have a lot to say about something. —Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 1.7.3
When it comes to money, where we feel our clear interest, we have an entire art where the tester uses many means to discover the worth... just as we give great attention to judging things that might steer us badly. but when it comes to our own ruling principle, we yawn and doze off, accepting any appearance that flashes by without counting to cost.
—Epictetus, Discourses, 1.20.8:11(resource) The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom
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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
prayer/ choice/ clarity
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)
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January 25th: The only prize
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
What's left to be prized? This, I think -- to limit our action or inaction to only what's in keeping with the needs of our own preparation... it's what the exertions of education and teaching are all about -- here is the thing to be prized! If you hold this firmly, you'll stop trying to get yourself all the other things... If you don't you won't be free, self sufficient, or liberated from passion, but necessarily full of envy, jealousy, and suspicion for any who have the power to take them, and you'll plot against those who do have what you prize... But by having some self respect for your own mind and prizing it, you will please yourself and be in better harmony with your fellow human beings, and more in tune with the gods- praising everything the have set in order and allotted you. —Marcus Aurelius, Meditations,6.16.2b-4a