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☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: Seeing What There Is Outside

The long view.

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Allan John (What Is Stoicism?)
Oct 03, 2025
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1. Morning Contemplation

🎧 You can find the audio version of this morning’s contemplation below.

Good morning.

One of the great Stoic remedies for the catastrophes we drum up in our minds is to simply see things as they really are. To pay attention to what’s really going on. This level of observation sounds straightforward, but it’s more than a matter of just looking.

It’s not always easy to see true reality, especially when we’ve created a story in our minds.

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