Passages Saved From iOS

Betrachten wir unsere Gedanken mit genug Abstand, um entscheiden zu können, wie wir weiter vorgehen wollen, ungeachtet der Einflüsterungen unseres Verstandes. Schärfen wir unseren Blick auf die konstruierte Geschichte unseres Selbst und lernen wir, uns aus anderen Perspektiven zu betrachten, um herauszufinden, wer wir sind. Lassen wir sämtliche Emo

“Let all your efforts be directed to something, let it keep that end in view. It’s not activity that disturbs people, but false conceptions of things that drive them mad.” —SENECA, ON TRANQUILITY OF MIND

We have a choice: Do we focus on the ways we have been wronged, or do we use what we’ve been given and get to work? Will we wait for someone to save us, or will we listen to Marcus Aurelius’s empowering call to “get active in your own rescue—if you care for yourself at all—and do it while you can.” That’s better than just blowing your own nose (whi

“Some things are in our control, while others are not. We control our opinion, choice, desire, aversion, and, in a word, everything of our own doing. We don’t control our body, property, reputation, position, and, in a word, everything not of our own doing. Even more, the things in our control are by nature free, unhindered, and unobstructed, while