[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":419},["ShallowReactive",2],{"stoicism-month-02":3},[4,24,38,53,67,81,96,110,124,138,152,166,180,194,209,223,237,251,265,279,293,307,322,336,350,364,378,392,406],{"path":5,"title":6,"description":7,"meta":8},"/stoicism/02/01","For The Hot Headed Man","Meditation for February 1, 2021",{"quotes":9,"last_updated_at":15,"tags":16,"categories":20,"changeFreq":22,"backgroundImage":23},[10],{"quote":11},{"content":12,"author":13,"source":14},"Keep this thought handy when you feel a fit of rage coming on — it isn't manly to be enraged. Rather, gentleness and civility are more human, and therefore manlier. A real man doesn't give way to anger and discontent, and such a person has strength, courage, and endurance — unlike the angry and complaining. The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.","Marcus Aurelius","Meditations, 11.18.5b","2021-02-01T07:00:00",[17,18,19],"stoicism","passions","emotions",[21,17],"meditation","never","/IMG_1901.jpg",{"path":25,"title":26,"description":27,"meta":28},"/stoicism/02/02","A Proper Frame Of Mind","Meditation for February 2, 2021",{"quotes":29,"last_updated_at":34,"tags":35,"categories":36,"changeFreq":22,"backgroundImage":37},[30],{"quote":31},{"content":32,"author":13,"source":33},"Frame your thoughts like this — you are an old person, you won't let yourself be enslaved by this any longer, no longer pulled like a puppet by every impulse, and you'll stop complaining about your present fortune or dreading the future.","Meditations, 2.2","2021-02-02T07:00:00",[17,18,19],[21,17],"/IMG_1903.jpg",{"path":39,"title":40,"description":41,"meta":42},"/stoicism/02/03","The Source Of Your Anxiety","Meditation for February 3, 2021",{"quotes":43,"last_updated_at":49,"tags":50,"categories":51,"changeFreq":22,"backgroundImage":52},[44],{"quote":45},{"content":46,"author":47,"source":48},"When I see an anxious person, I ask myself, what do they want? For if a person wasn't wanting something outside of their own control, why would they be stricken by anxiety?","Epictetus","Discourses, 2.13.1","2021-02-03T07:00:00",[17,18,19],[21,17],"/IMG_1911.jpg",{"path":54,"title":55,"description":56,"meta":57},"/stoicism/02/04","On Being Invincible","Meditation for February 4, 2021",{"quotes":58,"last_updated_at":63,"tags":64,"categories":65,"changeFreq":22,"backgroundImage":66},[59],{"quote":60},{"content":61,"author":47,"source":62},"Who then is invincible? The one who cannot be upset by anything outside their reasoned choice.","Discourses, 1.18.21","2021-02-04T07:00:00",[17,18,19],[21,17],"/IMG_1904.jpg",{"path":68,"title":69,"description":70,"meta":71},"/stoicism/02/05","Steady Your Impulses","Meditation for February 5, 2021",{"quotes":72,"last_updated_at":77,"tags":78,"categories":79,"changeFreq":22,"backgroundImage":80},[73],{"quote":74},{"content":75,"author":13,"source":76},"Don't be bounced around, but submit every impulse to the claims of justice, and protect your clear conviction in every appearance.","Meditations, 4.22","2021-02-05T07:00:00",[17,18,19],[21,17],"/IMG_1906.jpg",{"path":82,"title":83,"description":84,"meta":85},"/stoicism/02/06","Don't Seek Out Strife","Meditation for February 6, 2021",{"quotes":86,"last_updated_at":92,"tags":93,"categories":94,"changeFreq":22,"backgroundImage":95},[87],{"quote":88},{"content":89,"author":90,"source":91},"I don't agree with those who plunge headlong into the middle of the flood and who, accepting a turbulent life, struggle daily in great spirit with difficult circumstances. The wise person will endure that, but won't choose it — choosing to be at peace, rather than at war.","Seneca","Moral Letters, 28.7","2021-02-06T07:00:00",[17,18,19],[21,17],"/IMG_1908.jpg",{"path":97,"title":98,"description":99,"meta":100},"/stoicism/02/07","Fear Is A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy","Meditation for February 7, 2021",{"quotes":101,"last_updated_at":106,"tags":107,"categories":108,"changeFreq":22,"backgroundImage":109},[102],{"quote":103},{"content":104,"author":90,"source":105},"Many are harmed by fear itself, and many may have come to their fate while dreading fate.","Oedipus, 992","2021-02-07T07:00:00",[17,18,19],[21,17],"/IMG_3167.jpg",{"path":111,"title":112,"description":113,"meta":114},"/stoicism/02/08","Did That Make You Feel Better","Meditation for February 8, 2021",{"quotes":115,"last_updated_at":120,"tags":121,"categories":122,"changeFreq":22,"backgroundImage":123},[116],{"quote":117},{"content":118,"author":90,"source":119},"You cry, I'm suffering severe pain! Are you then relieved from feeling it, if you bear it in an unmanly way?","Moral Letters, 78.17","2021-02-08T07:00:00",[17,18,19],[21,17],"/IMG_3184.jpg",{"path":125,"title":126,"description":127,"meta":128},"/stoicism/02/09","You Don't Have To Have An Opinion","Meditation for February 9, 2021",{"quotes":129,"last_updated_at":134,"tags":135,"categories":136,"changeFreq":22,"backgroundImage":137},[130],{"quote":131},{"content":132,"author":13,"source":133},"We have the power to hold no opinion about a thing and to not let it upset our state of mind — for things have no natural power to shape our judgments.","Meditations, 6.52","2021-02-09T07:00:00",[17,18,19],[21,17],"/IMG_3189.jpg",{"path":139,"title":140,"description":141,"meta":142},"/stoicism/02/10","Anger Is Bad Fuel","Meditation for February 10, 2021",{"quotes":143,"last_updated_at":148,"tags":149,"categories":150,"changeFreq":22,"backgroundImage":151},[144],{"quote":145},{"content":146,"author":90,"source":147},"There is no more stupefying thing than anger, nothing more bent on its own strength. If successful, none more arrogant, if foiled, none more insane — since it's not driven back by weariness even in defeat, when fortune removes its adversary it turns its teeth on itself.","On Anger, 3.1.5","2021-02-10T07:00:00",[17,18,19],[21,17],"/IMG_3252.jpg",{"path":153,"title":154,"description":155,"meta":156},"/stoicism/02/11","Hero Or Nero?","Meditation for February 11, 2021",{"quotes":157,"last_updated_at":162,"tags":163,"categories":164,"changeFreq":22,"backgroundImage":165},[158],{"quote":159},{"content":160,"author":90,"source":161},"Our soul is sometimes a king, and sometimes a tyrant. A king, by attending to what is honorable, protects the good health of the body in its care, and gives it no base or sordid command. But an uncontrolled, desire-fueled, over-indulged soul is turned from a king into that most feared and detested thing — a tyrant.","Moral Letters, 114.24","2021-02-11T07:00:00",[17,18,19],[21,17],"/IMG_3400.jpg",{"path":167,"title":168,"description":169,"meta":170},"/stoicism/02/12","Protect Your Peace Of Mind","Meditation for February 12, 2021",{"quotes":171,"last_updated_at":176,"tags":177,"categories":178,"changeFreq":22,"backgroundImage":179},[172],{"quote":173},{"content":174,"author":47,"source":175},"Keep constant guard over your perceptions, for it is no small thing you are protecting, but your respect, trustworthiness and steadiness, peace of mind, freedom from pain and fear, in a word your freedom. For what would you sell these things?","Discourses, 4.3.6b-8","2021-02-12T07:00:00",[17,18,19],[21,17],"/IMG_3652.jpg",{"path":181,"title":182,"description":183,"meta":184},"/stoicism/02/13","Pleasure Can Become Punishment","Meditation for February 13, 2021",{"quotes":185,"last_updated_at":190,"tags":191,"categories":192,"changeFreq":22,"backgroundImage":193},[186],{"quote":187},{"content":188,"author":47,"source":189},"Whenever you get an impression of some pleasure, as with any impression, guard yourself from being carried away by it, let it await your action, give yourself a pause. After that, bring to mind both times, first when you have enjoyed the pleasure and later when you will regret it and hate yourself. Then compare to those the joy and satisfaction you'd feel for abstaining altogether. However, if a seemingly appropriate time arises to act on it, don't be overcome by its comfort, pleasantness, and allure — but against all of this, how much better the consciousness of conquering it.","Enchiridion, 34","2021-02-13T07:00:00",[17,18,19],[21,17],"/IMG_4040.jpg",{"path":195,"title":196,"description":197,"meta":198},"/stoicism/02/14","Think Before You Act","Meditation for February 14, 2021",{"quotes":199,"last_updated_at":205,"tags":206,"categories":207,"changeFreq":22,"backgroundImage":208},[200],{"quote":201},{"content":202,"author":203,"source":204},"For to be wise is only one thing - to fix our attention on our intelligence, which guides all things everywhere.","Heraclitus, Quoted","Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, 9.1","2021-02-14T07:00:00",[17,18,19],[21,17],"/IMG_4034.jpg",{"path":210,"title":211,"description":212,"meta":213},"/stoicism/02/15","Only Bad Dreams","Meditation for February 15, 2021",{"quotes":214,"last_updated_at":219,"tags":220,"categories":221,"changeFreq":22,"backgroundImage":222},[215],{"quote":216},{"content":217,"author":13,"source":218},"Clear your mind and get a hold on yourself and, as when awakened from sleep and realizing it was only a bad dream upsetting you, wake up and see that what's there is just like those dreams.","Meditations, 6.31","2021-02-15T07:00:00",[17,18,19],[21,17],"/IMG_4028.jpg",{"path":224,"title":225,"description":226,"meta":227},"/stoicism/02/16","Don't Make Things Harder Than They Need To Be","Meditation for February 16, 2021",{"quotes":228,"last_updated_at":233,"tags":234,"categories":235,"changeFreq":22,"backgroundImage":236},[229],{"quote":230},{"content":231,"author":13,"source":232},"If someone asks you how to write your name, would you bark out each letter? And if they get angry, would you then return the anger? Wouldn't you rather gently spell out each letter for them? So then, remember in life that your duties are the sum of individual acts. Pay attention to each of these as you do your duty… just methodically complete your task.","Meditations, 6.26","2021-02-16T07:00:00",[17,18,19],[21,17],"/IMG_4071.jpg",{"path":238,"title":239,"description":240,"meta":241},"/stoicism/02/17","The Enemy Of Happiness","Meditation for February 17, 2021",{"quotes":242,"last_updated_at":247,"tags":248,"categories":249,"changeFreq":22,"backgroundImage":250},[243],{"quote":244},{"content":245,"author":47,"source":246},"It is quite impossible to unite happiness with a yearning for what we don't have. Happiness has all that it wants, and resembling the well-fed, there shouldn't be hunger or thirst.","Discourses, 3.24.17","2021-02-17T07:00:00",[17,18,19],[21,17],"/IMG_4076.jpg",{"path":252,"title":253,"description":254,"meta":255},"/stoicism/02/18","Prepare For The Storm","Meditation for February 18, 2021",{"quotes":256,"last_updated_at":261,"tags":262,"categories":263,"changeFreq":22,"backgroundImage":264},[257],{"quote":258},{"content":259,"author":47,"source":260},"This is the true athlete — the person in rigorous training against false impressions. Remain firm, you who suffer, don't be kidnapped by your impressions! The struggle is great, the task divine — to gain mastery, freedom, happiness, and tranquility.","Discourses, 2.18.27–28","2021-02-18T07:00:00",[17,18,19],[21,17],"/IMG_4098.jpg",{"path":266,"title":267,"description":268,"meta":269},"/stoicism/02/19","The Banquet Of Life","Meditation for February 19, 2021",{"quotes":270,"last_updated_at":275,"tags":276,"categories":277,"changeFreq":22,"backgroundImage":278},[271],{"quote":272},{"content":273,"author":47,"source":274},"Remember to conduct yourself in life as if at a banquet. As something being passed around comes to you, reach out your hand and take a moderate helping. Does it pass you by? Don't stop it. It hasn't yet come? Don’t burn in desire for it, but wait until it arrives in front of you. Act this way with children, a spouse, toward position, with wealth — one day it will make you worthy of a banquet with the gods.","Enchiridion, 15","2021-02-19T07:00:00",[17,18,19],[21,17],"/IMG_4104.jpg",{"path":280,"title":281,"description":282,"meta":283},"/stoicism/02/20","The Grand Parade Of Desire","Meditation for February 20, 2021",{"quotes":284,"last_updated_at":289,"tags":290,"categories":291,"changeFreq":22,"backgroundImage":292},[285],{"quote":286},{"content":287,"author":13,"source":288},"Robbers, perverts, killers, and tyrants — gather for your inspection their so-called pleasures!","Meditations, 6.34","2021-02-20T07:00:00",[17,18,19],[21,17],"/IMG_4108.jpg",{"path":294,"title":295,"description":296,"meta":297},"/stoicism/02/21","Wish Not, Want Not","Meditation for February 21, 2021",{"quotes":298,"last_updated_at":303,"tags":304,"categories":305,"changeFreq":22,"backgroundImage":306},[299],{"quote":300},{"content":301,"author":47,"source":302},"Remember that it's not only the desire for wealth and position that debases and subjugates us, but also the desire for peace, leisure, travel, and learning. It doesn't matter what the external thing is, the value we place on it subjugates us to another… where our heart is set, there our impediment lies.","Discourses, 4.4.1-2;15","2021-02-21T07:00:00",[17,18,19],[21,17],"/IMG_5910.jpg",{"path":308,"title":309,"description":310,"meta":311},"/stoicism/02/22","What's Better Left Unsaid","Meditation for February 22, 2021",{"quotes":312,"last_updated_at":318,"tags":319,"categories":320,"changeFreq":22,"backgroundImage":321},[313],{"quote":314},{"content":315,"author":316,"source":317},"Cato practiced the kind of public speech capable of moving the masses, believing proper political philosophy takes care like any great city to maintain the warlike element. But he was never seen practicing in front of others, and no one ever heard him rehearse a speech. When he was told that people blamed him for his silence, he replied, 'Better they not blame my life. I begin to speak only when I'm certain what I'll say isn't better left unsaid.","Plutarch","Cato The Younger, 4","2021-02-22T07:00:00",[17,18,19],[21,17],"/IMG_4406.jpg",{"path":323,"title":324,"description":325,"meta":326},"/stoicism/02/23","Circumstances Have No Care For Our Feelings","Meditation for February 23, 2021",{"quotes":327,"last_updated_at":332,"tags":333,"categories":334,"changeFreq":22,"backgroundImage":335},[328],{"quote":329},{"content":330,"author":13,"source":331},"You shouldn't give circumstances the power to rouse anger, for they don't care at all.","Meditations, 7.38","2021-02-23T07:00:00",[17,18,19],[21,17],"/IMG_4414.jpg",{"path":337,"title":338,"description":339,"meta":340},"/stoicism/02/24","The Real Source Of Harm","Meditation for February 24, 2021",{"quotes":341,"last_updated_at":346,"tags":347,"categories":348,"changeFreq":22,"backgroundImage":349},[342],{"quote":343},{"content":344,"author":47,"source":345},"Keep in mind that it isn't the one who has it in for you and takes a swipe that harms you, but rather the harm comes from your own belief about the abuse. So when someone arouses your anger, know that it's really your own opinion fueling it. Instead, make it your first response not to be carried away by such impressions, for with time and distance self-mastery is more easily achieved.","Enchiridion, 20","2021-02-24T07:00:00",[17,18,19],[21,17],"/IMG_9182.jpg",{"path":351,"title":352,"description":353,"meta":354},"/stoicism/02/25","The Smoke And Dust Of Myth","Meditation for February 25, 2021",{"quotes":355,"last_updated_at":360,"tags":361,"categories":362,"changeFreq":22,"backgroundImage":363},[356],{"quote":357},{"content":358,"author":13,"source":359},"Keep a list before your mind of those who burned with anger and resentment about something, of even the most renowned for success, misfortune, evil deeds, or any special distinction. Then ask yourself, how did that work out? Smoke and dust, the stuff of simple myth trying to be legend…","Meditations, 12.27","2021-02-25T07:00:00",[17,18,19],[21,17],"/IMG_9183.jpg",{"path":365,"title":366,"description":367,"meta":368},"/stoicism/02/26","To Each His Own","Meditation for February 26, 2021",{"quotes":369,"last_updated_at":374,"tags":375,"categories":376,"changeFreq":22,"backgroundImage":377},[370],{"quote":371},{"content":372,"author":13,"source":373},"Another has done me wrong? Let him see to it. He has his own tendencies, and his own affairs. What I have now is what the common nature has willed, and what I endeavor to accomplish now is what my nature wills.","Meditations, 5.25","2021-02-26T07:00:00",[17,18,19],[21,17],"/IMG_9185.jpg",{"path":379,"title":380,"description":381,"meta":382},"/stoicism/02/27","Cultivating Indifference Where Others Grow Passion","Meditation for February 27, 2021",{"quotes":383,"last_updated_at":388,"tags":389,"categories":390,"changeFreq":22,"backgroundImage":391},[384],{"quote":385},{"content":386,"author":47,"source":387},"Of all the things that are, some are good, others bad, and yet others indifferent. The good are virtues and all that share in them; the bad are the vices and all that indulge them; the indifferent lie in between virtue and vice and include wealth, health, life, death, pleasure, and pain.","Discourses, 2.19.12b-13","2021-02-27T07:00:00",[17,18,19],[21,17],"/06BD5803-FE71-4652-97AC-19247C904E75.jpg",{"path":393,"title":394,"description":395,"meta":396},"/stoicism/02/28","When You Lose Control","Meditation for February 28, 2021",{"quotes":397,"last_updated_at":402,"tags":403,"categories":404,"changeFreq":22,"backgroundImage":405},[398],{"quote":399},{"content":400,"author":47,"source":401},"The soul is like a bowl of water, and our impressions are like the ray of light falling upon the water. When the water is troubled, it appears that the light itself is moved too, but it isn't. So, when a person loses their composure it isn't their skills and virtues that are troubled, but the spirit in which they exist, and when that spirit calms down so do those things.","Discourses, 3.3.20-22","2021-02-28T07:00:00",[17,18,19],[21,17],"/8494C0DF-66DD-4DA0-A13A-2E5A3346B0DD.jpg",{"path":407,"title":408,"description":409,"meta":410},"/stoicism/02/29","You Can't Always (Be) Get(ting) What You Want","Meditation for February 28, 2021 (Bonus)",{"quotes":411,"last_updated_at":402,"tags":416,"categories":417,"changeFreq":22,"backgroundImage":418},[412],{"quote":413},{"content":414,"author":47,"source":415},"When children stick their hand down a narrow goody jar they can't get their full fists out and start crying. Drop a few treats and you will get it out! Curb your desire - don't set your heart on so many things and you will get what you need.","Discourses, 3.9.22",[17,18,19],[21,17],"/FB4B17F3-65E7-485B-BAC6-BF3DA5903D3D.jpg",1793716896854]