[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":431},["ShallowReactive",2],{"stoicism-month-04":3},[4,23,37,52,66,81,95,109,123,137,151,165,179,193,207,221,235,249,263,277,291,305,319,333,347,361,375,389,403,417],{"path":5,"title":6,"description":7,"meta":8},"/stoicism/04/01","The Color Of Your Thoughts","Meditation for April 1, 2021",{"quotes":9,"last_updated_at":15,"tags":16,"categories":19,"changeFreq":21,"backgroundImage":22},[10],{"quote":11},{"content":12,"author":13,"source":14},"Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought, for the human spirit is colored by such impressions.","Marcus Aurelius","Meditations, 5.16","2021-04-01T07:00:00",[17,18],"stoicism","unbiased thought",[20,17],"meditation","never","/IMG_9580.jpg",{"path":24,"title":25,"description":26,"meta":27},"/stoicism/04/02","Be Wary Of What You Let In","Meditation for April 2, 2021",{"quotes":28,"last_updated_at":33,"tags":34,"categories":35,"changeFreq":21,"backgroundImage":36},[29],{"quote":30},{"content":31,"author":13,"source":32},"Drama, combat, terror, numbness, and subservience — every day these things wipe out your sacred principles, whenever your mind entertains them uncritically or lets them slip in.","Meditations, 10.9","2021-04-02T07:00:00",[17,18],[20,17],"/IMG_9594.jpg",{"path":38,"title":39,"description":40,"meta":41},"/stoicism/04/03","Deceived And Divided","Meditation for April 3, 2021",{"quotes":42,"last_updated_at":48,"tags":49,"categories":50,"changeFreq":21,"backgroundImage":51},[43],{"quote":44},{"content":45,"author":46,"source":47},"Circumstances are what deceive us — you must be discerning in them. We embrace evil before good. We desire the opposite of what we once desired. Our prayers are at war with our prayers, our plans with our plans.","Seneca","Moral Letters, 45.6","2021-04-03T07:00:00",[17,18],[20,17],"/IMG_9595.jpg",{"path":53,"title":54,"description":55,"meta":56},"/stoicism/04/04","Don't Let This Go To Your Head","Meditation for April 4, 2021",{"quotes":57,"last_updated_at":62,"tags":63,"categories":64,"changeFreq":21,"backgroundImage":65},[58],{"quote":59},{"content":60,"author":13,"source":61},"Make sure you're not made 'Emperor,' avoid that imperial stain. It can happen to you, so keep yourself simple, good, pure, saintly, plain, a friend of justice, god-fearing, gracious, affectionate, and strong for your proper work. Fight to remain the person that philosophy wished to make you. 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.","Meditations, 6.30","2021-04-04T07:00:00",[17,18],[20,17],"/IMG_4555.jpg",{"path":67,"title":68,"description":69,"meta":70},"/stoicism/04/05","Trust, But Verify","Meditation for April 5, 2021",{"quotes":71,"last_updated_at":77,"tags":78,"categories":79,"changeFreq":21,"backgroundImage":80},[72],{"quote":73},{"content":74,"author":75,"source":76},"First off, don't let the force of the impression carry you away. Say to it, 'hold up a bit and let me see who you are and where you are from — let me put you to the test' …","Epictetus","Discourses, 2.18.24","2021-04-05T07:00:00",[17,18],[20,17],"/IMG_9597.jpg",{"path":82,"title":83,"description":84,"meta":85},"/stoicism/04/06","Prepare Yourself For Negativity","Meditation for April 6, 2021",{"quotes":86,"last_updated_at":91,"tags":92,"categories":93,"changeFreq":21,"backgroundImage":94},[87],{"quote":88},{"content":89,"author":13,"source":90},"When you first rise in the morning tell yourself: I will encounter busybodies, ingrates, egomaniacs, liars, the jealous and cranks. They are all stricken with these afflictions because they don’t know the difference between good and evil. Because I have understood the beauty of good and the ugliness of evil, I know that these wrong-doers are still akin to me…and that none can do me harm, or implicate me in ugliness - nor can I be angry at my relatives or hate them. For we are made for cooperation.","Meditations, 2.1","2026-04-06T08:45:00",[17,18],[20,17],"/IMG_9601.jpg",{"path":96,"title":97,"description":98,"meta":99},"/stoicism/04/07","Expect To Change Your Opinions","Meditation for April 7, 2021",{"quotes":100,"last_updated_at":105,"tags":106,"categories":107,"changeFreq":21,"backgroundImage":108},[101],{"quote":102},{"content":103,"author":75,"source":104},"There are two things that must be rooted out in human beings — arrogant opinion and mistrust. Arrogant opinion expects that there is nothing further needed, and mistrust assumes that under the torrent of circumstance there can be no happiness.","Discourses, 3.14.8","2026-04-07T09:08:00",[17,18],[20,17],"/IMG_4576.jpg",{"path":110,"title":111,"description":112,"meta":113},"/stoicism/04/08","The Cost Of Accepting Counterfeits","Meditation for April 8, 2021",{"quotes":114,"last_updated_at":119,"tags":120,"categories":121,"changeFreq":21,"backgroundImage":122},[115],{"quote":116},{"content":117,"author":75,"source":118},"When it comes to money, where we feel our clear interest, we have an entire art where the tester uses many means to discover the worth … just as we give great attention to judging things that might steer us badly. But when it comes to our own ruling principle, we yawn and doze off, accepting any appearance that flashes by without counting the cost.","Discourses, 1.20.8; 11","2021-04-08T07:00:00",[17,18],[20,17],"/IMG_9623.jpg",{"path":124,"title":125,"description":126,"meta":127},"/stoicism/04/09","Test Your Impressions","Meditation for April 9, 2021",{"quotes":128,"last_updated_at":133,"tags":134,"categories":135,"changeFreq":21,"backgroundImage":136},[129],{"quote":130},{"content":131,"author":75,"source":132},"From the very beginning, make it your practice to say to every harsh impression, ‘you are an impression and not at all what you appear to be.’ Next, examine and test it by the rules you possess, the first and greatest of which is this — whether it belongs to the things in our control or not in our control, and if the latter, be prepared to respond, ‘It is nothing to me.’","Enchiridion, 1.5","2021-04-09T07:00:00",[17,18],[20,17],"/IMG_9627.jpg",{"path":138,"title":139,"description":140,"meta":141},"/stoicism/04/10","Judgements Cause Disturbance","Meditation for April 10, 2021",{"quotes":142,"last_updated_at":147,"tags":148,"categories":149,"changeFreq":21,"backgroundImage":150},[143],{"quote":144},{"content":145,"author":75,"source":146},"It isn't events themselves that disturb people, but only their judgments about them.","Enchiridion, 5","2021-04-10T07:00:00",[17,18],[20,17],"/IMG_9635.jpg",{"path":152,"title":153,"description":154,"meta":155},"/stoicism/04/11","If You Want To Learn, Be Humble","Meditation for April 11, 2021",{"quotes":156,"last_updated_at":161,"tags":162,"categories":163,"changeFreq":21,"backgroundImage":164},[157],{"quote":158},{"content":159,"author":75,"source":160},"Throw out your conceited opinions, for it is impossible for a person to begin to learn what he thinks he already knows.","Discourses, 2.17.1","2021-04-11T07:00:00",[17,18],[20,17],"/IMG_9643.jpg",{"path":166,"title":167,"description":168,"meta":169},"/stoicism/04/12","Reject Tantalizing Gifts","Meditation for April 12, 2021",{"quotes":170,"last_updated_at":175,"tags":176,"categories":177,"changeFreq":21,"backgroundImage":178},[171],{"quote":172},{"content":173,"author":46,"source":174},"Atreus: Who would reject the flood of fortune's gifts? Thyestes: Anyone who has experienced how easily they flow back.","Thyestes, 536","2021-04-12T07:00:00",[17,18],[20,17],"/IMG_9650.jpg",{"path":180,"title":181,"description":182,"meta":183},"/stoicism/04/13","Less Is More","Meditation for April 13, 2021",{"quotes":184,"last_updated_at":189,"tags":190,"categories":191,"changeFreq":21,"backgroundImage":192},[185],{"quote":186},{"content":187,"author":13,"source":188},"Don't act grudgingly, selfishly, without due diligence, or to be a contrarian. Also, don't overdress your thought in fine language. Don't be a person of too many words and too many deeds … Be cheerful, not wanting outside help or the relief others might bring. A person needs to stand on their own, not be propped up.","Meditations, 3.5","2021-04-13T07:00:00",[17,18],[20,17],"/IMG_4582.jpg",{"path":194,"title":195,"description":196,"meta":197},"/stoicism/04/14","Becoming An Expert In What Matters","Meditation for April 14, 2021",{"quotes":198,"last_updated_at":203,"tags":204,"categories":205,"changeFreq":21,"backgroundImage":206},[199],{"quote":200},{"content":201,"author":46,"source":202},"Believe me, it's better to produce the balance-sheet of your own life than that of the grain market.","On The Brevity of Life, 18.3b","2021-04-14T07:00:00",[17,18],[20,17],"/IMG_9682.jpg",{"path":208,"title":209,"description":210,"meta":211},"/stoicism/04/15","Pay Your Taxes","Meditation for April 15, 2021",{"quotes":212,"last_updated_at":217,"tags":218,"categories":219,"changeFreq":21,"backgroundImage":220},[213],{"quote":214},{"content":215,"author":46,"source":216},"Nothing will ever befall me that I will receive with gloom or a bad disposition. I will pay my taxes gladly. Now, all the things which cause complaint or dread are like the taxes of life — things from which, my dear Lucilius, you should never hope for exemption or seek escape.","Moral Letters, 96.2","2021-04-15T07:00:00",[17,18],[20,17],"/IMG_9702.jpg",{"path":222,"title":223,"description":224,"meta":225},"/stoicism/04/16","Observe Cause And Effect","Meditation for April 16, 2021",{"quotes":226,"last_updated_at":231,"tags":232,"categories":233,"changeFreq":21,"backgroundImage":234},[227],{"quote":228},{"content":229,"author":13,"source":230},"Pay close attention in conversation to what is being said, and to what follows from any action. In the action, immediately look for the target, in words, listen closely to what's being signaled.","Meditations, 7.4","2021-04-16T07:00:00",[17,18],[20,17],"/IMG_9703.jpg",{"path":236,"title":237,"description":238,"meta":239},"/stoicism/04/17","No Harm, No Foul","Meditation for April 17, 2021",{"quotes":240,"last_updated_at":245,"tags":246,"categories":247,"changeFreq":21,"backgroundImage":248},[241],{"quote":242},{"content":243,"author":13,"source":244},"Do away with the opinion I am harmed, and the harm is cast away too. Do away with being harmed, and harm disappears.","Meditations, 4.7","2021-04-17T07:00:00",[17,18],[20,17],"/IMG_9713.jpg",{"path":250,"title":251,"description":252,"meta":253},"/stoicism/04/18","Opinions Are Like ...","Meditation for April 18, 2021",{"quotes":254,"last_updated_at":259,"tags":260,"categories":261,"changeFreq":21,"backgroundImage":262},[255],{"quote":256},{"content":257,"author":75,"source":258},"What is bad luck? Opinion. What are conflict, dispute, blame, accusation, irreverence, and frivolity? They are all opinions, and more than that, they are opinions that lie outside of our own reasoned choice, presented as if they were good or evil. Let a person shift their opinions only to what belongs in the field of their own choice, and I guarantee that person will have peace of mind, whatever is happening around them.","Discourses, 3.3.18b-19","2021-04-18T07:00:00",[17,18],[20,17],"/IMG_4595.jpg",{"path":264,"title":265,"description":266,"meta":267},"/stoicism/04/19","Our Sphere Of Impulses","Meditation for April 19, 2021",{"quotes":268,"last_updated_at":273,"tags":274,"categories":275,"changeFreq":21,"backgroundImage":276},[269],{"quote":270},{"content":271,"author":13,"source":272},"Epictetus says we must discover the missing art of assent and pay special attention to the sphere of our impulses — that they are subject to reservation, to the common good, and that they are in proportion to actual worth.","Meditations, 11.37","2021-04-19T07:00:00",[17,18],[20,17],"/IMG_4598.jpg",{"path":278,"title":279,"description":280,"meta":281},"/stoicism/04/20","Real Good Is Simple","Meditation for April 20, 2021",{"quotes":282,"last_updated_at":287,"tags":288,"categories":289,"changeFreq":21,"backgroundImage":290},[283],{"quote":284},{"content":285,"author":13,"source":286},"Here's a way to think about what the masses regard as being ‘good’ things. If you would first start by setting your mind upon things that are unquestionably good—wisdom, self-control, justice, courage — with this preconception you'll no longer be able to listen to the popular refrain that there are too many good things to experience in a lifetime.","Meditations, 5.12","2021-04-20T07:00:00",[17,18],[20,17],"/IMG_4614.jpg",{"path":292,"title":293,"description":294,"meta":295},"/stoicism/04/21","Don't Let Your Attention Slide","Meditation for April 21, 2021",{"quotes":296,"last_updated_at":301,"tags":302,"categories":303,"changeFreq":21,"backgroundImage":304},[297],{"quote":298},{"content":299,"author":75,"source":300},"When you let your attention slide for a bit, don't think you will get back a grip on it whenever you wish — instead, bear in mind that because of today's mistake everything that follows will be necessarily worse… Is it possible to be free from error? Not by any means, but it is possible to be a person always stretching to avoid error. For we must be content to at least escape a few mistakes by never letting our attention slide.","Discourses, 4.12.1; 19","2021-04-21T07:00:00",[17,18],[20,17],"/IMG_4615.jpg",{"path":306,"title":307,"description":308,"meta":309},"/stoicism/04/22","The Marks Of A Rational Person","Meditation for April 22, 2021",{"quotes":310,"last_updated_at":315,"tags":316,"categories":317,"changeFreq":21,"backgroundImage":318},[311],{"quote":312},{"content":313,"author":13,"source":314},"These are the characteristics of the rational soul: self-awareness, self-examination, and self-determination. It reaps its own harvest… It succeeds in its own purpose…","Meditations, 11.1-2","2021-04-22T07:00:00",[17,18],[20,17],"/IMG_9735.jpg",{"path":320,"title":321,"description":322,"meta":323},"/stoicism/04/23","The Mind Is All Yours","Meditation for April 23, 2021",{"quotes":324,"last_updated_at":329,"tags":330,"categories":331,"changeFreq":21,"backgroundImage":332},[325],{"quote":326},{"content":327,"author":13,"source":328},"You have been formed of three parts — body, breath, and mind. Of these, the first two are yours insofar as they are only in your care. The third alone is truly yours.","Meditations, 12.3","2021-04-23T07:00:00",[17,18],[20,17],"/IMG_9739.jpg",{"path":334,"title":335,"description":336,"meta":337},"/stoicism/04/24","A Productive Use For Contempt","Meditation for April 24, 2021",{"quotes":338,"last_updated_at":343,"tags":344,"categories":345,"changeFreq":21,"backgroundImage":346},[339],{"quote":340},{"content":341,"author":13,"source":342},"Just as when meat or other foods are set before us we think, this is a dead fish, a dead bird or pig; and also, this fine wine is only the juice of a bunch of grapes, this purple-edged robe just sheep’s wool dyed in a bit of blood from a shellfish; or of sex, that it is only rubbing private parts together followed by a spasmic discharge—in the same way our impressions grab actual events and permeate them, so we see them as they really are.","Meditations, 6.13","2021-04-24T12:00:00",[17,18],[20,17],"/IMG_9744.jpg",{"path":348,"title":349,"description":350,"meta":351},"/stoicism/04/25","There's Nothing Wrong With Being Wrong","Meditation for April 25, 2021",{"quotes":352,"last_updated_at":357,"tags":358,"categories":359,"changeFreq":21,"backgroundImage":360},[353],{"quote":354},{"content":355,"author":13,"source":356},"If anyone can prove and show to me that I think and act in error, I will gladly change it — for I seek the truth, by which no one has ever been harmed. The one who is harmed is the one who abides in deceit and ignorance.","Meditations, 6.24","2021-04-25T07:00:00",[17,18],[20,17],"/IMG_9748.jpg",{"path":362,"title":363,"description":364,"meta":365},"/stoicism/04/26","Things Happen In Training","Meditation for April 26, 2021",{"quotes":366,"last_updated_at":371,"tags":372,"categories":373,"changeFreq":21,"backgroundImage":374},[367],{"quote":368},{"content":369,"author":13,"source":370},"When your sparring partner scratches or head-butts you, you don't then make a show of it, or protest, or view him with suspicion or as plotting against you. And yet you keep an eye on him, not as an enemy or with suspicion, but with a healthy avoidance. You should act this way with all things in life. We should give a pass to many things with our fellow trainees. For, as I've said, it's possible to avoid without suspicion or hate.","Meditations, 6.20","2021-04-26T07:00:00",[17,18],[20,17],"/IMG_4627.jpg",{"path":376,"title":377,"description":378,"meta":379},"/stoicism/04/27","Turn It Inside Out","Meditation for April 27, 2021",{"quotes":380,"last_updated_at":385,"tags":386,"categories":387,"changeFreq":21,"backgroundImage":388},[381],{"quote":382},{"content":383,"author":13,"source":384},"Turn it inside out and see what it is like — what it becomes like when old, sick, or prostituting itself. How short-lived the praiser and praised, the one who remembers and the remembered. Remembered in some corner of these parts, and even there not in the same way by all, or even by one. And the whole earth is but a mere speck.","Meditations, 8.21","2021-04-27T07:00:00",[17,18],[20,17],"/IMG_9755.jpg",{"path":390,"title":391,"description":392,"meta":393},"/stoicism/04/28","Wants Make You A Servant","Meditation for April 28, 2021",{"quotes":394,"last_updated_at":399,"tags":400,"categories":401,"changeFreq":21,"backgroundImage":402},[395],{"quote":396},{"content":397,"author":46,"source":398},"Tantalus: The highest power is— Thyestes: No power, if you desire nothing.","Thyestes, 440","2021-04-28T07:00:00",[17,18],[20,17],"/IMG_9760.jpg",{"path":404,"title":405,"description":406,"meta":407},"/stoicism/04/29","Washing Away The Dust Of Life","Meditation for April 29, 2021",{"quotes":408,"last_updated_at":413,"tags":414,"categories":415,"changeFreq":21,"backgroundImage":416},[409],{"quote":410},{"content":411,"author":13,"source":412},"Watch the stars in their courses and imagine yourself running alongside them. Think constantly on the changes of the elements into each other, for such thoughts wash away the dust of earthly life.","Meditations, 7.47","2021-04-29T07:00:00",[17,18],[20,17],"/IMG_9761.jpg",{"path":418,"title":419,"description":420,"meta":421},"/stoicism/04/30","What Is In Keeping With Your Character!","Meditation for April 30, 2021",{"quotes":422,"last_updated_at":427,"tags":428,"categories":429,"changeFreq":21,"backgroundImage":430},[423],{"quote":424},{"content":425,"author":75,"source":426},"Just as what is considered rational or irrational differs for each person, in the same way what is good or evil and useful or useless differs for each person. This is why we need education, so that we might learn how to adjust our preconceived notions of the rational and irrational in harmony with nature. In sorting this out, we don't simply rely on our estimate of the value of external things, but also apply the rule of what is in keeping with one's character.","Discourses, 1.2.5-7","2021-04-30T07:00:00",[17,18],[20,17],"/IMG_6948.jpg",1793716896914]