Category: Calm through the storm

Manvotional: The Majesty of Calmness | The Art of Manliness https://buff.ly/2vqUE6e

“This universe that you see, containing the human and the divine, is a unity; we are the limbs of a mighty body. Nature brought us to birth as kin, since it generated us all from the same materials and for the same purposes, endowing us with affection for one another and making us companionable. Nature established fairness and justice. According to nature’s dispensation, it is worse to harm than to be harmed. On the basis of nature’s command, let our hands be available to help whenever necessary. Let this verse be in your heart and in your mouth:

I am a human being, I regard nothing human as foreign to me.

Let us hold things in common, as we are born for the common good. Our companionship is just like an arch, which would collapse without the stones’ mutual support to hold it up”.

– Seneca, Letters 95.52-53

Applying the concepts of stoicism can be used to create a fulfilled and happier life.

http://www.matthewrenew.com/mind/how-to-be-a-modern-day-stoic/

Change — whether it’s a shift in your ideology, a tweak to your health regimen, or even something as small as changing your mind on one little thing — doesn’t mean you’re wishy-washy or a sell-out, it means you’re learning, improving, and growing, as a person.

Good read on how to deal with insults – It’s really easy to bark back the first thing that comes to mind (or something well-thought-out, later) when insulted. But the better road taken is the high one, which is (usually) to ignore. Another option is to ruminate/sleep on it and decide whether it’s useful info for self-growth. This is true especially with online interactions. For me, I can easily ignore a lot of online stupidity, but I should start applying insult pacifism with people I deal with in person, too.

Twenty-First Century Stoic — Insult Pacifism

Podcast #316: An Introduction to Stoicism

“a human being is a rational animal. Hence his good is complete if he fulfills that for which he is born. But what is it that this rationality requires of him? The easiest thing of all: to live in accordance with his own nature. It is our shared insanity that makes this difficult: we push one another into faults. And how can we be recalled to health, when all people drive us forward and no one holds us back?”

– Seneca, Letters 41.8

The First Key to Mastery: Finding Your Life’s Task | The Art of Manliness http://buff.ly/2rjy9O7