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Daily Touch of Inspirations

August 16th: Anything can be an advantage

Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

Just as the nature of rational things has given to each person their rational powers, so it also gives us this power — just as nature turns to its own purpose any obstacle or any opposition, sets its place in the destined order, and co-opts it, so every rational person can convert any obstacle into the raw material for their own purpose. — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 8.35

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March 30th: Reason in all things

Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

Hurry to your ruling reason, to the reason of the Whole, and to your neighbor's. To your own mind to make it just; to the mind of the Whole to remember your place in it; and to your neighbor's mind to learn weather it's ignorant or or sound knowledge - while recognizing it's like yours. —Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 9.22

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May 21st: What kind of boxer are you?

Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

But what is philosophy? Doesn't it simply mean preparing ourselves for what may come? Don't you understand that really amounts to saying that if I would so prepare myself to endure, then let anything happen that will? Otherwise, it would be like the boxer exiting the ring because he took some punches. Actually, you can leave the boxing ring without consequence, but what advantage would come from abandoning the pursuit of wisdom? So, what should each of us say to every trial we face? This is what I've trained for, for this my discipline! ~Epictetus, Discourses, 3.10.6-7

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They won't let me in

— Christian Story

Paulo Coelho, Stories for Parents, Children and Grandchildren

It was a beautiful Sunday morning. People were filing the church to its full capacity! As they entered, each were given a bulletin filled with announcements, topic of today's sermon, what songs they would sing and who to pray for. At the end of the line stood an older man. His clothes were filthy and you could tell that he had not bathed in days. His face was covered with whiskers, for her had not shaved for a very long time. When he reached the usher,

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The Law of Pure Potentiality Part 4

Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

The source of all creation is pure consciousness, pure potentiality seeking expression from the unmanifest to the manifest.

And when we realize that our true Self is one of pure potentiality, we align with the power that manifests everything in the universe.

In the beginning there was neither existence nor non existence. All this world was unmanifest energy. The One breathed, without breath, by Its own power Nothing else was there ~ Hymn of Creation, The Rig Veda

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