☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: Seeing The Bigger Picture
"How absurd are the boundaries of mortals!"
1. Morning Contemplation
🎧 You can find the audio version of this morning’s contemplation below.
Good morning.
Viewing the world from a different perspective—seeing it from far away, or as part of a bigger picture—can detach us from our worries and often make us realize that we shouldn’t be so worried at all.
This was a regular practice among the ancient Stoics.
Marcus Aurelius’s advice to himself was to “look down from above” and appreciate how small worldy affairs would appear if observed from a great height.
In his Natural Questions, the Stoic statesman Seneca offers the following meditation to the same effect:
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