525: Flow
Present and open, the exquisite machinery of the experience.
Suspending judgements, all out roads merge inward.
Face turned to the sensory rain.
Wide eyes and soul agape
Flow.
Danny James
Tag: stoicism
December 29, 2017
October 23, 2017
524: Serenity
I know the reaction I typically take in these situations, and I’m not going to do it this time.
I’m also going to remove this stimulus from my life in the future as well.
August 1, 2017
521
Silence is a lesson learned from the many sufferings of life.
—Seneca, Thyestes, 309
April 11, 2017
512
Never under compulsion, out of selfishness, without forethought, without misgivings. No surplus words or unnecessary actions. Let the spirit in you represent a man. Taking up his post like a soldier and patiently awaiting his recall from life. Needing no oath or witness. Cheerfulness. Without requiring other people’s help. Or serenity supplied by others. To stand up straight, not straightened.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
January 19, 2017
507: These daily
See that your principles remain.
Value over Resistance.
Enable, rather than do.
Initiate, or delay.
January 6, 2017
505
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Seneca
December 21, 2016
502
You don’t have to turn this into something. It doesn’t have to upset you.
Marcus Aurelius
May 8, 2016
479
Because you can take it.
April 25, 2016
475
Strength takes planning.
April 10, 2016
467
Promise Yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.
To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. To think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best. To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile. To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticise others. To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble. To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words but great deeds. To live in faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you.
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The true optimist not only expects the best to happen, but goes to work to make the best happen. The true optimist not only looks upon the bright side, but trains every force that is in him to produce more and more brightness in his life.
Christian D. Larson
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