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11/03/2024

Le pedí al Gran Espíritu que me quitara el miedo al cambio…
El Gran Espíritu respondió: NO, el miedo es parte de tu viaje; al enfrentarlo, descubres tu valentía.

Le pedí al Gran Espíritu que me diera sabiduría…
El Gran Espíritu dijo: NO, la sabiduría es la suma de tus experiencias, aciertos y tropiezos; se gana en el camino.

Le pedí al Gran Espíritu que me librara de la tristeza…
El Gran Espíritu respondió: NO, la tristeza es una maestra, te enseña a valorar la alegría y te muestra las profundidades de tu propio ser.

Le pedí al Gran Espíritu que llenara mi vida de paz…
El Gran Espíritu dijo: NO, la paz nace de tu equilibrio interno y de la armonía que cultivas en tus pensamientos y actos.

Le pedí al Gran Espíritu que me diera fuerza para superar mis debilidades…
El Gran Espíritu respondió: NO, la fuerza se forja con cada desafío que enfrentas, con cada vez que te levantas después de caer.

Le pedí al Gran Espíritu que me enseñara a amar sin miedo…
El Gran Espíritu dijo: NO, el amor verdadero surge cuando abrazas tus vulnerabilidades y te abres sin esperar nada a cambio.

Le pedí al Gran Espíritu que me diera la capacidad de perdonar…
El Gran Espíritu respondió: NO, el perdón nace de la comprensión y la compasión que tienes hacia ti mismo y hacia los demás.

Le pedí al Gran Espíritu que me protegiera de la incertidumbre…
El Gran Espíritu dijo: NO, la incertidumbre es el misterio de la vida, y en ella, encuentras la oportunidad de confiar y aprender.

Le pedí al Gran Espíritu que me guiara en mis decisiones…
El Gran Espíritu respondió: NO, confía en tu intuición, porque ella es mi voz susurrando en tu interior.

Le pedí al Gran Espíritu que me apartara del dolor de la pérdida…
El Gran Espíritu dijo: NO, cada pérdida enseña a valorar lo efímero y a comprender el flujo de la vida.

Le pedí al Gran Espíritu que me diera una vida sin obstáculos…
El Gran Espíritu respondió: NO, los obstáculos son el terreno fértil donde crecen tu resiliencia y determinación.

Le pedí al Gran Espíritu que me ayudara a encontrar mi propósito…
El Gran Espíritu dijo: NO, el propósito se revela en cada acto de bondad, en cada esfuerzo por ser mejor, y en cada lección que integras.

Le pedí al Gran Espíritu que eliminara mi ego…
El Gran Espíritu respondió: NO, el ego es un maestro; cuando lo reconoces y lo dominas, descubres tu esencia verdadera.

Le pedí al Gran Espíritu que me ayudara a comprender a otros…
El Gran Espíritu dijo: NO, primero comprende tu propio corazón, y entonces verás el reflejo de los demás en ti.

Le pedí al Gran Espíritu que me enseñara a vivir sin arrepentimientos…
El Gran Espíritu respondió: NO, aprende de cada paso y camina hacia adelante; el pasado es solo una parte de tu crecimiento.

Finalmente, le pedí al Gran Espíritu que me mostrara cómo amar y comprender la vida en todas sus formas…
Y el Gran Espíritu dijo: Al fin lo comprendes; vive con gratitud, honra cada instante, y ama a cada ser, comenzando por ti mism@. Solo así podrás abrazar la totalidad de la vida día a día.

-Ometeotl.✨

Namaste 🙏🏻♥️🌞🌙⭐️

10/28/2024

We can imagine people wanted things from Marcus Aurelius. They wanted jobs. They wanted favorable rulings. They wanted policy changes. They wanted his attention. So much…demanded by so many people.

We are not quite emperors, but people seem to want a lot from you, don’t they? Your boss does. Your kids do. The news wants your attention. Your neighbor wants your time. That group wants your money. Your spouse needs your affection. Your parents need your help. People need stuff from you.

This is part of being a human, but just as part of being a country—or an empire—means having borders, as humans, we have to have boundaries. We have to be able to be accessible as parents and employees and friends and offspring, but we can’t give everything away (much more on this in Discipline. We can’t allow ourselves to be run roughshod over. There’s an Aristotelian Mean here, a mid-point between the vices of closed off-ness and chaos, between appropriate and inappropriate.

In the famous Rush song about being in the Limelight, they sing that “One must put up barriers to keep oneself intact.” Marcus Aurelius had to learn this. You have to learn this. What will you allow and not allow? Bear and not forebear? These are issues of boundaries. These are essential conclusions you have to come to as a mature, self-sufficient, responsible adult.

Marcus Aurelius understood that to rule effectively, he couldn’t allow himself to be consumed by everyone else’s demands. Without boundaries, and without the discipline to protect those boundaries, you risk losing yourself in the chaos of other people’s needs. Boundaries don’t limit your capacity to help others—they preserve it.

10/21/2024

As filthy and corrupt as Rome was, we can imagine Marcus Aurelius catching its glint and smiling. As horrific and ugly as Epictetus’ life was, we can imagine him finding some solace and beauty in it. As busy and frustrating and exhausting as Seneca’s life was, we know he must have enjoyed it on his “wandering walks.”

Golden Hour. Magic Hour. That picturesque period when the sun’s rays hit the earth at an angle and bathe everything and everyone in a soft glow. We know Marcus tried to get up for it at dawn, even when he was tired. We know that Seneca said that the world was a temple of the gods. Could he perhaps have been talking about some particularly wonderful sunset? It would make sense.

Look, it doesn’t matter what’s happening in your life. It doesn’t matter what’s happening in the world. Golden hour is there. It’s there more than once a day, weather permitting. It doesn’t fail us…we fail it. Because we spend that time indoors. We spend it brooding or preoccupied.

Marcus Aurelius said that what doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness. Whoever misses golden hour misses the opportunity to see the world, even for just a moment, in its best light, misses what beauty is available to us each and every day. Not seeing that would lead to a dark life indeed.

10/09/2024

You could say that Stoicism seems to re-emerge when the world is thrown into crisis. Whether it was Montaigne during the Renaissance or Viktor Frankl following the world wars, writers and thinkers throughout history have turned to the Stoics in search of answers to the problems of their day. Isn’t that what we’re doing here at the Daily Stoic? Looking for ways to deal with the craziness of our times that have included political division, unstable economies, and a global pandemic, to name a few issues we’ve faced in the recent past?

Mike Duncan, . Why does Stoicism reappear just when we seem to need it the most?

His answer:

Anytime the world starts to feel like it’s being engulfed by entropy, chaos and noisy disunity, the mind naturally seeks out something that offers cohesion, order, and quiet unity. We can get carried away by events and certainly feel our passions leading us into behavior that we might upon reflection regret. Stoicism offers a solid place to plant your feet and say the winds may howl but I will not be swept away.
That’s a fantastic definition of the attitude the Stoic seeks to cultivate. The winds may howl but I will not be swept away.

As we head into the coming months where an election here in America promises an ever-swirling storm of uncertainty, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed, frustrated, and pulled in a thousand different directions. It’s easy to feel like you can’t make a difference. The mob might react with anger. There may be confusion and misdirection from every corner, voices screaming for our attention, trying to pull us into the madness. But as Stoics, we must remember one thing: we cannot control the actions or opinions of others, only what we do, only how we choose to respond.

No election, no crisis, no fleeting outrage will push us from our principles, from responding to whatever obstacles we face with virtue. The world has faced turbulence before, and Stoicism has always been there to guide those who sought it. Now, as history repeats itself in new and unfamiliar forms, we will once again choose to stand firm, knowing that while the storm may be relentless, our resolve will always be stronger.

Hold fast, stay grounded, and, above all, do not be swept away.

10/07/2024

Death comes for us all. We know this, however much we might deny it. Even if we believe in the science of radical life extensions, even if we feel young and healthy and invincible, most of us understand that some day, we will die. Memento mori—we know that we are mortal.

Yet in our view, death sits there, off in the future. Something we obviously don’t want to happen, but not exactly something we think about every day. It is a thought for later, something to get serious about later, when it gets around to making its presence felt.

But this is precisely wrong, Seneca tells us. Death is not something that happens to us once, that we are moving towards, each at our own pace. Instead, he says, death is happening right now. Not just to other people, to people we love, to people who themselves thought they were healthy and invincible, but to us. We are dying every day, he says. The time that passes belongs to death.

You must understand this: Once a second is spent, it is gone forever. As we kill time, time kills us, slowly, inevitably, irrevocably. In the midst of life, we are in death. Indeed, life is cumulative death…until we run out. So we must guard our time accordingly, live our lives accordingly.

09/30/2024

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09/27/2024

Follow the Road Map to Ready
By Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Glen Mulready

September is National Preparedness Month! Established by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), this initiative empowers Americans to plan for disasters. Preparing for emergencies can help you weather any storm, so this month, I want to share our Road Map to Ready, a simple blueprint you can follow to get ready.

Step 1: Create an Emergency Communication Plan

Your emergency communication plan should contain three sets of contacts: emergency contacts, key contacts and out-of-state contacts. Your emergency contacts should include family members or close friends with whom you must remain in contact during and after a disaster. Medical facilities, doctors and other critical service providers are key contacts. Lastly, you need at least one out-of-state contact who can provide information in case of local communication disruptions. Make copies of this list for everyone in your household.

Step 2: Build an Emergency Kit

You need to have essentials available during and after disasters, so having a go-bag on standby is essential. This is a bag that you can quickly grab on your way to safety. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has a list of items you might want to include. To summarize, pack nonperishable food, water, medication, important documents like identification and insurance information and a change of clothes.

Step 3: Make an Evacuation and Shelter Plan

Knowing evacuation routes or where to take shelter can be lifesaving in a disaster. Make an evacuation or shelter plan for different scenarios. Ensure your household knows where and how to take shelter. In case of evacuation, plan multiple ways to leave your home quickly and choose a place to meet up. Locate nearby places for safety, like a friend’s house or a community center.

Step 4: Address Unique or Special Needs

Be mindful of special or unique needs you must address in the aftermath of a disaster. For example, if you or a family member relies on medication or medical equipment, you will want to include these items in your plans. If you have pets, add their supplies to your go-bag and have their carriers ready to go in case of evacuation or seeking shelter.

Step 5: Stay Informed

Updates will help you remain safe and know when to act. Monitor emergency alerts through radio, TV or smartphone apps. Enable emergency notifications on your cell phone. Receiving weather updates is especially important in Oklahoma, so consider downloading a weather forecast app, visiting weather.gov or keeping a battery-powered radio handy.

Step 6: Practice and Review

Conduct emergency drills to practice your plan. Remember to review and update your plans as needs change. This way, you and your family will always be ready for emergencies.

Don’t wait for the next disaster to have a plan. Prepare today! To find our Road Map to Ready and other preparedness resources, visit www.oid.ok.gov/getready. If you have insurance questions or concerns, please contact OID at 800-522-0071 or visit www.oid.ok.gov.

09/23/2024

As we work and achieve, we pile up titles and money. We accumulate assets and influence. We build a life, as they say. And a life is made up of things: Our job. Our house. Our car. Our relationships. Our reputation.

Looking around at what we possess, what we’ve poured so much sweat and blood into, is an immensely rewarding experience. As Margaret Atwood writes in a beautiful poem,

The moment when, after many years
of hard work and a long voyage
you stand in the centre of your room,
house, half-acre, square mile, island, country,
knowing at last how you got there,
and say, I own this,

But the Stoic knows that we never really own anything. All that we possess in this life, Marcus Aurelius says, even life itself, is really ours only in trust. We are renters. Our lives are here on loan...loans that can get called in at any time. We can be fired. Someone can dislodge our seemingly dominant market position. A loved one can leave. People die.

That’s why Margaret Atwood warns against the pride and satisfaction of surveying one’s possessions. The moment you do that, she says, nature rebels. Almost out of spite, they feel the need to rebuke you for your pride.

No, they whisper. You own nothing.
You were a visitor, time after time
climbing the hill, planting the flag, proclaiming.
We never belonged to you.
You never found us.
It was always the other way round.

None of us own anything. Everything is constantly in flux. What we have today may be gone tomorrow—we ourselves may be gone tomorrow. Understand that. Appreciate everything accordingly. Be grateful and humble...or life will rebuke you. Fate will remind you who is in charge and nature will reclaim what is hers.

09/10/2024

Happiness is a mindset, a conscious choice we make every day. It isn’t about having a perfect life, but about finding joy in the little things, cultivating gratitude, and focusing on the positives, even in challenging times. While circumstances can influence our mood, true happiness comes from within—it’s an attitude that allows us to see the beauty in imperfections and to appreciate what we have rather than what we lack. By choosing to embrace a mindset of happiness, we empower ourselves to live more fulfilling lives, regardless of the ups and downs that come our way. Happiness is not something to chase; it’s something to create from the inside out.
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08/30/2024

You could wait for the perfect moment. You could wait for things to get clearer. You could wait, as we’ve been saying for years now, for things to go back to normal.​

Or you could get started.

​You could stop being the fool—the one that Seneca talks about, the one who is always getting ready. You could start demanding, as Epictetus instructed—the best for yourself. You could stop lying (it’s the biggest lie in the world, we said in a Daily Stoic video, “I’ll do it in the morning.”)

Do it now. Get started. Begun is half done. Do it now. Tempus fugit. Memento mori. You can’t know that you’ll get another chance. The time that passes, the opportunities you pass on—they are as good as dead. You are a little bit more dead.

Don’t do it later. Do it now. Today.

08/29/2024

In total, Bruce had more than 2,500 books in his personal library.

Bruce Lee’s Reading List
While Bruce’s library contained thousands of volumes, they were primarily centered in a handful of genres: philosophy (the vast majority), martial arts (and other fighting disciplines), and self-help. Below is but a sampling of Bruce’s favorite authors and most interesting titles.

Western Philosophy:

Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes
The Undiscovered Self by Carl Jung
On Becoming a Person by Carl Rogers
The Works of Bertrand Russell
The Works of Plato
Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracian
Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell (and other Campbell titles)
Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza
Maxims and Reflections by Johann Wolfgang van Goethe

Eastern Philosophy:

The Works of Jiddu Krishnamurti (whom Polly notes was “one of his more important influences”)
Tao-Te-Ching by Lao-Tzu
The Way of Chuang-Tzu
The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
The Works of Alan Watts
The Analects of Confucius
Art of War by Sun-Tzu
Bushido: The Soul of the Samurai
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse (and many other Hesse titles)
Buddhism by Christmas Humphreys (and dozens of other Buddhism-related titles)
The Chinese Classics compiled by James Legge (all 5 volumes)
Living Zen by Robert Linssen (and many other Zen-related titles)

Martial Arts/Fencing/Boxing:

On Fencing by Aldo Nadi (plus at least 60(!) other books on fencing and fencing theory)
Aikido: The Art of Self-Defense by Ko�ichi Tohei
Advanced Karate by Mas Oyama (and many other Oyama titles)
A Beginner’s Book of Gymnastics by Barry Johnson
Championship Fighting by Jack Dempsey
Book of Boxing and Bodybuilding by Rocky Marciano
How to Box by Joe Louis
US Army Boxing Manual
Efficiency of Human Movement by Marion Ruth Broer
Physiology of Exercise by Laurence Morehouse
Wing Chun by James Lee
Acupuncture: The Ancient Chinese Art of Healing by Felix Mann
Esquire’s The Art of Keeping Fit
Combat Training of the Individual Soldier by the US Army
Modern Bodybuilding by Oscar Heidenstam

American Self-Help:

The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale (and many other Peale titles)
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
Dynamic Thinking by Melvin Powers
The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz
As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
The Success System That Never Fails by Clement Stone
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
How I Raised Myself From Failure to Success in Selling by Frank Bettger

Miscellaneous:

Elements of Style by Strunk and White
Playboy’s Party Jokes & More Playboy’s Party Jokes
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (one of the few novels)
The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis
The Story of Civilization by Will Durant (all 11 volumes!)
The Viking Book of Aphorisms
The Works of Shakespeare

08/29/2024

Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him of what he called 'the love of your fate.' Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, 'This is what I need.' It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment--not discouragement--you will find the strength is there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow.

Then, when looking back at your life, you will see that the moments which seemed to be great failures followed by wreckage were the incidents that shaped the life you have now. You’ll see that this is really true. Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

~Joseph Campbell, Reflections on the Art of Living.
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