1. Morning Contemplation
🎧 You can find the audio version of this morning’s contemplation below.
Good morning.
When A Million Little Pieces was published in 2003, it marked a major victory for James Frey. After years of struggling to become a writer, he finally felt he had written something truly worthwhile.
"I typed the last word... and I looked at it and I burst into tears... I felt like I’d written a book that I didn’t have to throw away," he recalled. His personal measure of success echoes Epictetus’s words: "No man is free who is not master of himself."
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