Being is being, whether the differences appear or not.
Capturing the ‘good life‘ is a challenge for all beings.
Virtue is kingly in all our endeavors, a course correction is often needed to keep one’s life from running aground or being stuck.
Live beyond mere survival.
All forms of poverty may fall upon you.
Don’t give up!
Live this day, this minute, it may be your last.
Who am I?
Belief is key.
Find a healthy way to be.
Someone here may remember his innermost peace.
Here again, he taught us mindfulness.
Here he found his compassion to share the world.
Who is your favorite historical figure?
Understated philosopher, whose teacher was Musonius Rufus.
To me, this helps me practise what I need by looking at the source. The progenitor of a teacher student relationship in the practice of the proper use of impressions.
To do no harm and do my best.
https://brewminate.com/musonius-rufus-stoic-teacher-of-epictetus/
Awaken my mind through meditation in the form of this practice.
To learn to be present through the movement of mind, heart and body practice.
The awakening element is inner peace practice: letting go of the sensations of body, mind, and heart.
Enjoyment! Inner Peace, Being present, being calm, still and silent…. Awake.
Why not examine our lives for holes?
If you have ever gone down the YouTube rabbit hole, you know what I mean.
Nothing wrong with YouTube or other users.
It is just the hole I find myself in from time to time.
I get stuck: depressed and tired, angry, obsessed, addicted and lost!
Getting to know myself is the solution.
Awareness is key, but the truth can be more painful than I am prepared to live with on this or any occasion.
Sometimes it is good enough to know I am in a hole.
Sometime I need to stop look and listen.
Maybe it is time to turn off YouTube and go to bed.
What other holes am I stuck in at the moment?
The literal version is “the love of wisdom “.
The purpose of Philosophy is to secure reality and experience.
What a belief to explore….
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/philosophy
It has been a debate that the oldest profession is living, I say that living and dying are one.
It may sound morbid to many that life could be reduced to such things but what is important to you?
The good in a habit, a practice and a ritual is not the routine, but the objective of the routine.
Consider a conversation with someone who may know a thing or two about living and dying each day.
Education is key,
Please listen to the audio book and it’s author’s summary bellow.
I could develop a routine to create a good habit of reading, but why bother?
You must learn to be a happier person.
We tend to be a serious about life, books May help you understand life is good, like reading books is good.
You will become wise when you read.
Start that conversation, pick up a book you want to read today.
Does reading pop out to you right now. Spend time right now and learn to read each day.
Do you ever see nature pop out to you.?
Is your job your calling?
It is time to figure out, why some stuff is more or bigger, right now…
Ever see the Phenomenon, with John Travolta…. Doesn’t matter, he found nature popping out for him or his character George.
My job is my calling, I feel the need to swing by and do some oversight to one of the places I am managing. It is calling me out. I need to admit it is an important thing for me to do.
So, this stuff is important right now to George, John Travolta’s character and me going to work now.
Everyone has these bigger than life moments in the present.
It is worth acting on, but most of the time we feel too tired or too busy to bother.
The truth is that we would be happier and healthier if we would act on these hunches more often than not.
What is most important to you right now?
Do no harm, the proper use of impressions…
To journal about the stoic way.
To be present in my conscious awareness of being stoic.
It is the good life and doing no harm.
To state the principles and steep myself in the conversation and my voice to discover my way.
Much like the morning and evening stoic routine, it is a form or means to become conscious and discover the here and now, what is important part of my life.
To discipline myself in the art of living, is to discover my next step.
In a way, the reward is doing the step forward, committing to the choice, a better way to move now.
Letting go of the desire, or tolerating the aversion in whatever form it manifests.
A bit like Sting’s song about ‘every breath you take’. But do no harm.
There is no substitute for good ideals like compassion, and courage and the pursuit of truth and contemplation.
The meaning of life is not a secret.
These ideals will make you more alive.
Some will want to pursue a system too abstract or too ideal.
This system is called contemplation of the self.
But these ideals can be corrupted by counterfeiting and end up harming yourself and others.
So why bother at all?
It is good , during formal education to think about and ‘try on’ ideal to live a good life.
At best you will be happy!
At worst, you will get on with your life.