Topic: Stoic Thought of the Day (8th September)

Stoic Sam !zQ8ry.WSMk started this discussion 9 years ago #65,724

It is good to make time to reflect on your day ahead when you wake up in the morning.

Some ideas for reflection:

How will you react to any difficult situations you will face in the day to come?
What does your own mortality mean to you? Do you accept the fact that you age and will die?
How will you try to improve yourself today?
Which qualities make up the ideal person? What can you do to emulate those qualities?
What are the things causing you unhappiness lately? How can you deal with them?

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 1 hour later[^] [v] #811,282

are these copy pasted or is op even more nuts than I thought

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 34 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #811,283

@previous (B)
OP seems to be repackaging snippets of The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius for a lot of these. OP is doing a pretty good job at it too.

Stoic Sam !zQ8ry.WSMk (OP) replied with this 9 years ago, 3 hours later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #811,294

@previous (C)

Thanks. I'm also re-writing Epictetus's Enchiridon in modern English and with some updated context, I might post that when I'm done.

Anonymous C replied with this 9 years ago, 6 hours later, 11 hours after the original post[^] [v] #811,400

@previous (Stoic Sam !zQ8ry.WSMk)
> I'm also re-writing Epictetus's Enchiridon in modern English and with some updated context, I might post that when I'm done.
Please do if you can. I've always wanted to read that, but I never seemed to get around to it. He was a freedman wasn't he? I always thought Epictetus would have an interesting take on Stoicism for having been a slave.

Minichan