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The Altar of No Difference.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 4.15
“We are like many pellets of incense falling on the same altar. Some collapse sooner, but it makes no difference.”
The Pleasure of Tuning Out The Negative.
-Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 5.2
How satisfying it is to dismiss and block out any upsetting or foreign impression, and immediately to have peace in all things.
It’s Not On Them, It’s On You.
-Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 10.4
If someone is slipping up, kindly correct them and point out what they missed. But if you can’t, blame yourself—or no one.
It’s Going To Be OK
-Marcus Aurelius, 7.43
Don’t lament this, and don’t get agitated.
Follow The Logos
-Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 10.12b
The person who follows reason in all things will have both leisure and a readiness to act—they are at once both cheerful and self composed.
Pretend today is the end
-Seneca, Moral Letters, 101.7b-8a
Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing. Let us balance life’s books each day. . . .The one who puts the finishing touches on their life each day is never short on time.
Don’t mind me, I’m only dying slow
-Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 2.11.1
Let each thing you would do, say or attend be like be like that of a dying person.
The philosopher as an artisan of life and death
-Epictetus, Discources, 1.15.2
Philosophy does not claim to get a person any external possession. To do so would be beyond its field. As wood is the the carpenter, bronze to the sculptor, so our own lives are the proper material in the art of living.
You don’t own that
Epictetus, Discourses, 3.24.3
Anything that can be prevented, taken away, or coerced is not a person’s own—but those things that can’t be blocked are their own.
The benefits of sobering thoughts
-Epictetus, Enchiridion, 21
Keep death and exile before your eyes each day, along with everything that seems terrible–by doing so, you’ll never have a base thought nor will you have excessive desire.
The sword dangles over you
-Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 4.17
Don’t behave as if you are destined to live forever. What’s fated hangs over you? As long as you live and while you can, become good now.
The cards we’re dealt
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 7.56-57
Think of life you have lived until now as over and, as a dead man, see what’s left as a bonus and live it according to nature. Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own, for what could be more fitting.
Don’t hide from your feelings
-Seneca, On Consolation to Halvia, 17.1b
It’s better to conquer grief then to deceive it.
