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Ego is the enemy, ego sucks us down like gravity

Ego is the enemy, ego sucks us down like gravity

The purpose of this is to remind us to be:

  • Humble when ambitious
  • Gracious when successful
  • Resilient when we fail

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Wisdom

Wisdom to know that I do not and can not control the events outside me. I can only control how I respond to them.

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Summum Bonum (“the highest good”)

just do what is right, the rest doesn't matter.

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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

MARCUS AURELIUS

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Sympatheia

we are one, the fruits of this life are good character and helping others.

“Revere the gods, and look after each other. Life is short—the fruit of this life is a good character and acts for the common good.”

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Amor fati

Not merely to bear what is necessary, but to love it.

A blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it.

Love everything that happens.

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Four Virtues

  • wisdom
  • temperance
  • courage
  • justice

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Temperance

Temperance to know that everything should be done in moderation because both pleasure and pain are fleeting.

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If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.

MARCUS AURELIUS

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Justice

Justice to know that every day I will choose to honor equality, to want to do good, and to not want to harm human beings.

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Courage

Courage to know that if the thing threatens to cause me pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.

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You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.

SENECA

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Premeditatio Malorum (“the pre-meditation of evils”)

“All the terms of our human lot should be before our eyes” : Exile. Torture. War. Shipwreck.

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The obstacle is the way.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way, becomes the way.

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LIFE, DEATH AND TIME

MEMENTO MORI

  • You could leave life right now.
  • Remember you must die.

LIFE, DEATH AND TIME

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