☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: The Stoic Magic Wand
Turn it to gold.
1. Morning Contemplation
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Good morning.
Adversity in life is inevitable. To think otherwise, to think we can avoid it forever, is only guaranteeing that it will sting all the more when it arrives.
Knowing that we’ll have to face it, then, makes complaining about it all the more futile. Everyone gets their share. We’re not unique in having to deal with difficulty, so it doesn’t make a lot of sense to ask “Why me?”
Marcus Aurelius reminded himself of this in his Meditations:
