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August 13th: Take charge and end your troubles
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
You've endured countless troubles — all from not letting your ruling reason do the work it was made for — enough already! —Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 9.26
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November 30th: Follow the Logos
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
The person who follows reason in all things will have both leisure and readiness to act — they are at once both cheerful and self-composed. — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 10.12b
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February 28th: When you lose control
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
The soul is like a bowl of water, and our impressions are like the ray of light falling upon the water. When the water is troubled, it appears that the light itself is moved too, but it isn't. So, when a person loses their composure it isn't their skills and virtues that are troubled, but the spirit in which they exist, and when that spirit in which they exist, and when that spirit calms down so do those things. —Epictetus, Discourses, 3.3.20-22
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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
[Javits Wild] When he was in the country, he always asked the people he chanced to meet what "normal life" was like, because he had forgotten. The answers varied, and he gradually came to realize that, even when he was surrounded by other people, he was absolutely alone in the world. He decided to draw up a list of what constituted normal attitudes and behavior, based on what people did rather than on what they said.
- Normal is anything that makes us forget who we are and what we want; that way we can work in order to produce, reproduce, and earn money.
- Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention).
- Spending years studying at university only to find at the end of it all that you're unemployable.
There are a thousand excuses for every failure but never a good reason.
—Mark Twain
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July 17th: Don't abandon others... or yourself
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
As you move forward along the path of reason people will stand in your way. They will never be able to keep you from doing what's sound, so don't let them knock out your goodwill for them. Keep a steady watch on both fronts, not only for well-based judgments and actions, but also for gentleness with those who would obstruct our path or create other difficulties. For getting angry is also a weakness, just as much as abandoning the task or surrendering under panic. For doing either is an equal desertion — the one by shrinking back and the other by estrangement from family and friend. — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 11.9
We control our reasoned choice and all acts that depend on that moral will. What's not under our control are the body and any of its parts, our possessions, parents, siblings, children, or country - anything with which we might associate.
— Epictetus, Discourses, 1.22.10 —
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May 5th: You are the project
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
The raw material for the work of a good and excellent person is their own guiding reason, the body is that of the doctor and the physical trainer, and the farm the farmer's. ~Epictetus, Discourses, 3.3.1