Category: Wisdom

Amor Fati

Amor Fati. Source: Daily Stoic – Amor Fati.

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Where are you seeking good?

Where are you seeking good? Source: Daily Stoic – Where are you seeking good?

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Your perspective is everything

Source: Daily Stoic – Your perspective is…

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30 Albert Einstein Quotes for the Relentlessly Curious

Kids ask a lot of questions, and this genius is all for it. These Albert Einstein quotes offer practical advice from the edges of the cosmos. Source: 30 Albert Einstein Quotes for the Relentlessly Curious

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Progress

“‘How much progress shall I make?’ you ask. Just as much as you try to make. Why do you wait? Wisdom comes haphazard to no man.”

Seneca
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Endurance

“To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures.” Source: Endurance – Wikiquote

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The Stoic Art Of Not Panicking: @RyanHoliday Speaks To The U.S. Marine Corps

This caught my eye as I have two sons and a brother-in-law that are ‘prior service Marines’ (this much I know — one must never say ex-Marines). I was interested to see how Marines would respond to stoic thinking.

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The Crisis of Disconnection

Jay Shetty is growing on me. I like his goal: to make wisdom go viral! Here he speaks with airbnb founder Brian Chesky on disconnection and loneliness, a favorite theme of mine these days.

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The Good, the Bad, and the Technology

Embracing the coexistence of “good and bad” is essential for authentic progress. Here’s an excerpt:

“Philosophers like Friedrich Nietzsche and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel have deeply explored the concept of duality. Nietzsche’s idea of “eternal recurrence” posits that life is a repetitive cycle of events that includes both triumphs and tragedies. Hegel’s dialectic underlines that the synthesis of thesis and antithesis results in a higher form of understanding. In both instances, the existence of bad is not merely an unfortunate byproduct of reality but an essential catalyst for growth and progress.”

I’m predisposed to like any author or article that positively uses Hegel’s dialectic. Just sayin’ :-D

Source: The Good, the Bad, and the Technology

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Coach Greg Harden On Training Tom Brady and the Mindset Of Champions

Ryan speaks with Greg Harden about how Stoicism influenced his new book Stay Sane in an Insane World: How to Control the Controllables and Thrive, the techniques that he has used to coach so many sports greats to the highest levels of success, the difference between confidence and ego, why Tom Brady likes The Obstacle Is The Way, and more.

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How I Found My Worth in Spite of My Father’s Abandonment

My biological father was a ‘sperm donor’. I can relate to this author: “After my father left, I struggled with abandonment issues, people-pleasing, anxiety, and low self-esteem. Here’s how I found my worth. Source: How I Found My Worth in Spite of My Father’s Abandonment – Tiny Buddha”

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Powerful Stoic Quotes That Will Change Your Life

Ryan Holiday says ‘We all need a little motivation from time to time. A swift kick when we’re feeling a bit uninspired.’

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Saving Private Ryan; Ending Scene

I don’t know why, but every time I watch this clip I weep. “Tell me I’m a good man. Tell me I’ve lived a good life.” Isn’t this all every man wants to hear?

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And I did rise…

How can I not reblog this? Hesse’s Siddhartha literally changed the trajectory of my life. My master’s thesis was on the connection between Hesse’s Siddhartha and Hegel’s Dialectic. Had I continued on with my doctoral degree my goal would have been to become a world famous Hermann Hesse scholar. Search this brightshinyobjects.net for the words Hesse and/or Siddhartha and/or dialectic and you’ll see that my passion for this topic still smolders beneath the surface. If you haven’t read Siddhartha you owe it to yourself. It’s a book I have read every year for the past 45 years…

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(He) handed me a copy of Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha. “In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the boats, in the shade of the Sal-wood forest, in the shade of the fig tree is where Siddhartha grew up.” Reading that sentence for the first time in the small bedroom I shared with Charlie, it was as if I were reading about myself: In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the highway near the droning automobiles, in the shade of the pine trees, in the shade of the dead-end street is where Tom Lowe Jr. grew up. Siddhartha and his search for who he was meant to be, it was me on that river, it was me on those banks, and it was me who began to see books as doorways to worlds that could only help me rise in this…

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Stoic Advice For Hard Days

In every way the deck was stacked against Epictetus. 2,000 years ago in Hierapolis, he was born into slavery. He wasn’t even given a name–Epictetus just means “acquired one.” He was tortured. The fruits of his labor were stolen. His body was abused. Like a horse that was ridden into the ground and then put down. Later he was unfairly exiled. He went through unimaginable adversity and difficulty and yet he triumphed.

Ryan Holiday
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The Oddly Healthy Reason People Choose Partners Who ‘Trigger’ Past Wounds

It is not about finding someone who does not trigger you. It is about finding someone who you feel safe being triggered by. Source: The Oddly Healthy Reason People Choose Partners Who ‘Trigger’ Past Wounds

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What Marcus Aurelius Learned from His Father About Being a Good Man

Another excellent post from Ryan Holiday, this time about the things that Marcus Aurelius learned from his father:

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My muse

As I curate and create content, my muse sits silently by my side…

Sadie

As Eckhart Tolle famously said “I have known many zen masters in my life. All of them cats”…

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Unwinding Anxiety with Awareness

Tara Brach talks with Dr. Judson Brewer about how to unwind anxiety.

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Why I Don’t Regret That I Didn’t Walk Away from My Relationship Sooner

When the pain of staying was greater than the fear of leaving, it was time to walk away. Here’s why I don’t regret staying as long as I did. Source: Why I Don’t Regret That I Didn’t Walk Away from My Relationship Sooner – Tiny Buddha

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109 years expressed as an operating code of life via @davidkanigan

Among Charlie’s things after he was gone, his family found a single sheet of notepaper, on which Charlie had boiled 109 years into an operating code of life. Go to the Source: a single sheet of notepaper, on which Charlie had boiled 109 years into an operating code of life

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