☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: The Happy Life Is Within Your Grasp

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1. Morning Contemplation

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

Good morning.

In one of his many letters to Lucilius, the Stoic philosopher Seneca describes what he hopes his friend can achieve through his practice of Stoicism:

I pray that you may get such control over yourself that your mind, now shaken by wandering thoughts, may at last come to rest and be steadfast, that it may be content with itself and, having attained an understanding of what things are truly good, – and they are in our possession as soon as we have this knowledge, – that it may have no need of added years.

By “truly good” the Stoics meant virtue. Virtuous thoughts, intentions, and actions. The aim is to make each of these adhere as much as possible to the ​four Stoic virtues​: Courage, Justice, Moderation, and Wisdom.