"When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstances, revert at once to yourself, and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better grasp of the harmony if you keep on going back to it."

I really like this quote here.

Too often I berate myself for messing up, missing a day or two of working out, or failing myself in some way, and it's very easy to get caught up in that perceived sense of failure and spiral downward into a total loss of progress and perspective.

I will keep this in mind the next time I have a bad day and stop, breathe, forgive myself, and realign myself with my true desires and purpose and continue on my path to betterment.

crashed over the homies and chose the floor over the couch

s/o Marcus Aurelius

real

Y'all have no clue what it really is lmfao

you’re right let me look more into it before judging it like that

Just reading through the thread a decent start, people was asking questions before and there's references to the classic stoic literature.

yeah i’m upset to admit most of my knowledge of stoicism came from the subreddit that i checked out once and it wasn’t much. i’ll check back

"The way people behave. They refuse to admire their contemporaries, the people whose lives they share. No, but to be admired by Posterity — people they've never met and never will — that's what they set their hearts on. You might as well be upset at not being a hero to your great-grandfather."

Another passage from Meditations I really like. For a time when I was younger I wanted to be Remembered. To be Great. Now I am simply content with living exactly in the way I want, having a virtuous soul and sound mind.

i keep trying but i cant keep the mentality for a long amount of time

"You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you. Things can't shape our decisions by themselves."

Another passage from Meditations that I really like. It's hard to remember that not everything required an emotional reaction. We needn't be outraged by everyone little thing, it's exhausting. Much better to realize the impression it makes upon you and decide if it's worth your time and energy.

some overlap with buddhism

Just got this book today gonna start reading it later I’m just finishing Walden & Civil Disobedience atm. Got the Hays translation

That's the one I have. It's very readable and the foreword/intro has a lot of good info as well.

Sure am brother

I don’t think that’s what it is. I interpreted the complicated theories part as that we shouldn’t concern ourselves with the superfluous.

It’s not about merely accepting the world and not questioning anything, it’s to not indulge in a frame of thought that is merely hypothetical or has no real basis in our current understanding of life in Earth.

It’s more about being grounded with your emotions, feelings, etc and growing as an individual.

Stoic philosophy

"The first step: Don't be anxious. Nature controls it all. And before long you'll be no one, nowhere-like Hadrian, like Augustus.

The second step: Concentrate on what you have to do. Fix your eyes on it. Remind yourself that your task is to be a good human being, remind yourself what nature demands of people. Then do it, without hesitation, and speak the truth as you see it. But with kindness. With humility. Without hypocrisy."

From Meditations.

It's tough to avoid distraction in this modern era. The Attention Economy demands more and more from you. The evidence is in our screen time. I encourage everyone to take a day or a few hours to disengage from the screen and just be present with the stillness. What comes to you in those moments is usually what is true to you. Turn towards that and focus on action. The prospect for progress, to win or to lose, turns on the events of a single day. Godspeed.

"If it's in your control, why do you do it? If it's in someone else's, then who are you blaming? Atoms?

The gods? Stupid either way.

Blame no one. Set people straight, if you can. If not, just repair the damage. And suppose you can't do that either. Then where does blaming people get you?

No pointless actions."

Book 8, chapter 17 from Meditations.

Another passage that really hit me. The only true responsibility we have in life is personal responsibility. We are always in complete control over our mind and with that we can do a lot.

But don't use your short time on earth blaming others and flying into a rage. Step back and look deeply into the situation and your self, and then do what needs to be done without complaint.

the gregory hays translation is the most popular one and is a good translation

Stoic Phil

“No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.”

Who said this?