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36. Don’t let your imagination be crushed by life. Don’t try to picture everything bad that could happen. Stick with the situation at hand, and ask, “Why is this so unbearable? Why can’t I endure it?” You’ll be embarrassed to answer. https://t.co/Lojah3MspE
...eye on them after that. Not out of hatred or suspicion. Just keeping a friendly distance. We need to do that in other areas. We need to excuse what our sparring partners do, and just keep our distance—without suspicion or hatred. https://t.co/jUZjLn1lu7
In the ring, our opponents can gouge us with their nails or butt us with their heads and leave a bruise, but we don’t denounce them for it or get upset with them or regard them from then on as violent types. We just keep an eye... https://t.co/NXsRLurea2
At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: “I have to go to work—as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for—the things I was brought into the world to do? https://t.co/uMmQBvbB6K
man is like a dog tied to a moving wagon. If the dog refuses to run along with the wagon he will be dragged by it, yet the choice remains his: to run or be dragged. In the same way, humans are responsible for their actions... https://t.co/yfLrPX7Z3Z
(When the author of John’s Gospel tells us that “the Word”—logos—was with God and is to be identified with God, he is borrowing Stoic terminology.) #MarcusAurelius https://t.co/zJQjSJdPmb
Stoicism
... conviction that the world is organized in a rational and coherent way. More specifically, it is controlled and directed by an all-pervading force that the Stoics designated by the term logos. From Meditations #aurelius https://t.co/uS2vNAjssU
"Athens, where he was initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries, a set of mystic rites" from "Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library)" #marcusaurelius https://t.co/LwY0ZMbKZU
"His instructor in Latin oratory was Marcus Cornelius Fronto, a prominent rhetorician from Cirta in North Africa." from "Meditations: A New..." #marcusaurelius #gerogehays #marcusfronto https://t.co/Cmg7llQvNO