. If the pressure resurfaces repeat the steps noticing any shift in intensity.
Try this tomorrow on your ride and see how curiosity can quiet the storm before it even begins.
#StoicWonder #RelationshipGrowth #AutumnMindfulness #Epictetus #DailyDecision #Stoicism #AncientPhilosophy #MarcusAurelius #PersonalGrowth #SelfImprovement #Resilience #Philosophy #Wisdom #InnerPeace #StoicMindset (4/4)
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
— Epictetus
To live well, rejoice in what you have. Epictetus points us to gratitude and peace.
#Stoicism #Quotes #Epictetus #GratitudePractice #quotes
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Control your thoughts, and you control your world. That’s the gift of perception.
#PowerOfPerception #Epictetus #StoicPhilosophy #MentalStrength #quotes
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Try it tonight watch the doubt dissolve and share how the simple split helped you reclaim your weekend
#Stoicism #TimeManagement #Zeno #AutumnReflection #OnlineLife #StoicPhilosophy #MarcusAurelius #Epictetus #PersonalGrowth #Mindfulness #Resilience #Wisdom #AncientWisdom #InnerPeace #GrowthMindset (4/4)
Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.
— Epictetus
Finished reading https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/4c13234a-4912-495d-abbc-bc7511a5f993 - first read through. #stoic #stoicism #philosophy #epictetus #booksky
This isn't depression. It's clarity. Thinking I might not have tomorrow pushes you to live better today. Modern self-care often feels like avoiding discomfort. Stoicism asks you to face reality instead.
What would shift for you if you treated today like it could be it?
#Stoicism #MementoMori #Philosophy #LifeAdvice #Mindfulness #MarcusAurelius #Epictetus #Seneca #Existentialism #PersonalGrowth (3/3)
Try this autumn ritual on your next ride and watch how attention transforms tension into tenderness share your experience below #Stoicism #MarcusAurelius #Epictetus #PersonalGrowth #Mindfulness #SelfImprovement #Wisdom #AncientWisdom #StoicMindset #InnerPeace (5/5)
Key Question:
Next time someone claims Stoics don’t care about success, ask: Is this real philosophy or just someone scared to try? Stoicism isn’t about avoiding effort. It’s about giving your best while knowing that you’re more than your results.
#Stoicism #Philosophy #Success #PersonalGrowth #Mindset #Ambition #SelfImprovement #Epictetus #Seneca #MarcusAurelius (5/5)
Challenges reveal who you are. The tougher the storm, the stronger you prove yourself. Epictetus knew what's up. 💯⛈️
#Epictetus #Motivation #OvercomeChallenges #quotes
Next time you want to disconnect because you can't control others, ask yourself: Are you practicing Stoic wisdom or just avoiding the work of being present? True strength means showing up fully.
What do you think? Does this change how you see Stoic principles?
#Stoicism #Relationships #EmotionalResponsibility #Boundaries #EmotionalIntelligence #Epictetus #MarcusAurelius #Philosophy #SelfAwareness #PersonalGrowth (4/4)
Your value isn’t defined by results, but by your effort. As Epictetus put it: What upsets us isn’t what happens, but how we think about it. Stoics work hard toward what matters. They just don’t stake their worth on the outcome. Do the work. Let go of the rest.
#Stoicism #Philosophy #SuccessMindset #MythBusting #PersonalGrowth #AncientWisdom #MarcusAurelius #Epictetus #MindsetMatters #SelfMastery (4/4)
Treat your inner life with patience. Starve the greed for unattainable perfection. Start by conserving one unit of energy today. #StoicPhilosophy #Epictetus #StoicPractices #PersonalGrowth #SelfImprovement #Mindfulness #Philosophy #Wisdom #StoicMindset #Resilience (5/5)
True understanding, gained through diligent study, is the only antidote to the poison of greedy expectations. Turn your next family conflict into a classroom, and watch your own growth unfold.
#Stoicism #Epictetus #StoicPractices #PersonalGrowth #SelfImprovement #Philosophy #Wisdom #StoicMindset #Resilience #AncientWisdom (10/10)
“It’s the nature of the wise to resist
Pleasure, & the foolish to be [its] slave
[For certainly the good must persist
(& the weak to hide in luxury’s cave)]”
#Epictetus
#PhilosophyPoem
#ComicPoem
Amor fati
The literal translation of the Latin phrase amor fati is “love of fate”; the Wikipedia article states simply, “It is used to describe an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one’s life, including suffering and loss, as good or, at the very least, necessary.” Though the phrase has come for many to be associated with the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, it has its roots in the writings of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius.
For most of my adult life, I have had the obscure sense that there was a grain in the way things come to be, a natural falling into place that, if yielded to, would ultimately lead to the right end. At times, I have had no words for it, hardly dared to trust my own intuition; at other times I have sought, or been taught, to characterise it as the will of God, and my own role as that of surrender to that will. This, perhaps, is getting closer, as the Christian contemplative tradition has for many years understood, most clearly in the hesychast teachings of the Eastern church.
Over time, though, it has become clearer that – for me, at any rate – its most poignant expression is in the philosophy of the Tao. “The Tao is that from which one cannot deviate; that from which one can deviate is not the Tao.” (The Doctrine of the Mean, as quoted by Alan Watts) He goes on:
However, it must be clear from the start that Tao cannot be understood as “God” in the sense of the ruler, monarch, commander, architect, and maker of the universe. The image of the military and political overlord, or of a creator external to nature, has no place in the idea of Tao.
The great Tao flows… everywhere,
to the left and to the right,
All things depend upon it to exist,
and it does not abandon them.
To its accomplishments it lays no claim.
It loves and nourishes all things,
but does not lord it over them.
[Lao Tzu 34, tr. Watts]
Yet the Tao is most certainly the ultimate reality and energy of the universe, the Ground of being and nonbeing.
The Tao has reality and evidence, but no action and no form. It may be transmitted but cannot be received. It may be attained but cannot be seen. It exists by and through itself. It existed before heaven and earth, and indeed for all eternity. It causes the gods to be divine and the world to be produced. It is above the zenith, but is not high. It is beneath the nadir, but is not low. Though prior to heaven and earth, it is not ancient. Though older than the most ancient, it is not old.
[Chuang Tzu 6, tr. Fung Yu-Lan]
To “accord with the Tao,” then, is to drop back, sit still, pay attention. Cause and effect are the way things happen. They are one thing, really. The separation of the two words is quite artificial. There is a deep peace in knowing this, and more than a peace. Truly to embrace the coming-to-be of what comes to be is to love the way itself; and yet it is not something to be attained, not an achievement or an accomplishment. The path opens of itself. All one can do is be still.
#AlanWatts #awareness #ChuangTzu #contemplative #Epictetus #FriedrichNietzsche #LaoTzu #MarcusAurelius #surrender #Tao
“Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.” – often attributed to #Epictetus #word
