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By contemplating our deathbed regrets, we learn that the secret to the art of dying well is right under our noses in how we live our lives. Source: You Have Just Five Minutes Left to Live – What Are Your Deathbed Regrets? – Tiny Buddha
“Long-form journalism traditionally prompted us to “stop and think.” By contrast, today’s partisan news and social media outlets often encourage us to “hurry up and feel.” As a result, our ability to think and argue with our fellow citizens has regrettably atrophied. Accordingly, we have to start exercising our deliberative social skills and discerning media habits once more.” Source: What Can Be Done About Our Deep Political Divisions? | Psychology Today
The Dalai Lama invites us to trust in the power of heart and awareness to awake through all circumstances. What does that look like in the midst of our current global crises? Source: The Calling of These Times – Part 1 – Tara Brach
Could some ancient and obscure pages—the private diaries of one of Rome’s greatest emperors (Marcus Aurelius), the personal letters of one of Rome’s best playwrights and wisest power brokers (Seneca), the lectures of a former slave and exile, turned influential teacher (Epictetus)—really contain anything relevant to modern life? The answer, it turns out, is yes. Source: 7 Ancient Stoic Tenets To Keep In Mind Today And Every Day
The tenets are:
Memento Mori: Live each day as if it were your last
Amor Fati: Love what is as if you had chosen it
Premeditatio Malorum: Prepare for the worst case scenario
Sympatheia: Think often on the mutual interdependence of all things
Summum Bonum: Think always of the highest good
The impediment to action advances action; what stands in the way becomes the way
Ego is the enemy..
Ryan Holiday writes “I was 19 years old when I purchased my first copy of Meditations. Here are 16 Stoic lessons I learned from over 100 readings of the classic”. Go to the source: The 16 Greatest Lessons From 16 Years With Marcus Aurelius
Buddhist teacher Judy Lief explains the Buddha’s deep analysis of the roots of anxiety and shows how mindfulness can help us ease the suffering of an anxious mind. Source: Unraveling Anxiety
Meditation, Emotional Healing, and Spiritual Awakening from Tara Brach, PhD – Psychologist, Author, and Meditation Teacher. Source: Three Practices for Nurturing Wise Hope – Tara Brach
Learn how to manage your locus of control to your benefit. Source: How Your “Locus of Control” Affects Your Life
Bonus: consider these thoughts from the stoics…
My childhood trauma led me to judge and abuse myself. Here’s how I healed my wounds through self-acceptance. Source: Why I Had to Stop Judging Myself to Start Healing from Childhood Trauma – Tiny Buddha
I have followed both of these women for almost a decade; Tara Brach is of course one of the most respected western teacher of eastern thought and Lori Deschene is the chief creative at the site Tiny Buddha. It’s fun to listen in on their conversation.
Tap into your authenticity through self-awareness. Source: Four Hacks for Becoming Your Best Self
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Ten ways to forgive the unkindest cuts. Source: Lightening the Load We Carry From Childhood
Very Zen for a country song: “It’s the way that you carry it for the things you think you want. I’ve got everything I need and nothing that I don’t.”
Ryan Holiday writes: “Marcus Aurelius did not come out of the womb a leader. Nor was he an emperor ‘by blood.’ In fact, when first told he was to be king, he wept—thinking of all the bad and failed kings of history. So how did he get from there to philosopher king? Book 1 of Meditations shows us. The first ten percent of the book—Debts and Lessons—thanks people who groomed him into one of history’s greatest leaders. He knew it—without his philosophy teachers and rhetoric teachers and, most importantly, his mentor Antoninus Pius, he wouldn’t have became who he became. In this video Ryan Holiday recounts one of the greatest stories in human history and talks about how Antoninus Pius taught Marcus Aurelius the most important virtue of all.”
Amor fati is a Latin phrase that may be translated as “love of fate” or “love of one’s fate”. 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.[1]
Amor fati is often associated with what Friedrich Nietzsche called “eternal recurrence“, the idea that, over an infinite period of time, everything recurs infinitely. From this he developed a desire to be willing to live exactly the same life over and over for all eternity (“…long for nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal”).[2]
Amor fati Is also talked about in stoic philosophy. Source: Amor fati – Wikipedia
A book that changed the trajectory of my life is now 100 years old! “When the novel about an Indian man’s spiritual journey was first published, it barely created a ripple. Decades later, it inspired millions to embark on a voyage of self-discovery.” Source: https://www.dw.com/en/100-years-of-hermann-hesses-siddhartha/a-63113218?maca=en-GK-Inoreader-Culture-21643-xml-media
Just because a thing is good doesn’t mean that you need more of it. “Lagom” teaches us to appreciate that “just enough” is all we need. Source: The Swedish philosophy of lagom: how “just enough” is all you need
Bright, Shiny Objects! 
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